1.0 link 45679 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/kurt-vonnegut_b_45679.html In the mid-1990s, I heard Kurt Vonnegut speak at Cornell University where he briefly majored in chemistry before leaving in 1944 without earning a degree. He told the assemblage at Bailey Hall, filled with fawning professors of English and Comparative Literature, along with their students, that the last place on campus anyone would find a good writer was in the academic departments. Vonnegut said the place to look for the important writer would be in the "boiler room" maintaining...

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