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61. Is the contempt in which administrators are held sometimes justified? For no one is better than an administrator at forgetting where one comes from; why one is here in the first place.

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60. It is I who remember, not the memory-image in my mind. The memory-image can at best remind me of what so-and-so looked like. It takes memory to tell me that what is presented to me is a representation of the past.

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59. The problem with philosophy and with academic scholarship generally, especially in the humanities, is the danger of the swelling spiral of commentary. We heap comment upon comment, until the stink of it reaches so high that we lose sight of the real world. Not only do philosophers use their own jargon, but they wash their own laundry. Like any self-perpetuating bureaucracy, the tail we devour is our own.