- Jun 30
BLOG #11: Becoming a 'Visiting Scholar' -- 'Futile and Stupid Gestures' Revisited
My favorite quotations from movies generally have to do with persistence in a noble but potentially ill-advised enterprise: From Animal House: Otter (Tim Matheson): “Now is the time for a truly…futile and stupid gesture." Bluto (John Belushi): "And we’re just the ones to do it!” \ From The Princess Bride: Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright): “We’ll never survive the fire swamp.” Wesley (Carey Elwes): “Oh, you’re only saying that because nobody ever has.” In 2007, I began a sabb
