telecommunication versus communion

All this money spent on useless research..Everybody knows that you go to church to pray together with other people and you go to bars to drink in company. Beware of those who drink alone.

Silk Stockings

Saw yesterday dress performance. As always Cole Porter...
 One of the themes - the heroine, Ninotchka, educated in communist Russia cannot laugh or make a joke. Hmm....does this explain why I am trying so hard to be funny?

college education -missed

I took all kind of kind of Coursera classes. Felt exactly as described in this article - missed the basic classic education.  And then I took their course in modern poetry and discovered close reading of poems and the class discussions. Since then I view each text in a new light.