The Lost Language of Cranes
“His dissertation had compared the ideas of history espoused by several English and Italian Renaissance poets most people had never heard of, and won him a post-doctoral fellowship and an adjunct position at a small women's college just outside Boston. This hardly pleased Owen's father, who had a different idea of success. "Why the hell do you want to waste two years and three hundred pages on some poets no one's ever going to read in the first place?" he'd cry to Owen, thrashing through the pag...es of The Wall Street Journal with a violence that had nothing to do with reading. "Just look at this," he'd say, and point to news of some catastrophe. "With the world in the shape it's in now, you want to go off and write about poetry." He was the sort of man who believed that to offer aid to starving peasants was to deny them the chance to succeed on their own. "Every man has the God-given, fundamental right to make his family proud of him," he used to say, while Owen sat across from him and pulled at his fingers until they cracked, a mute smile planted on his face.MoreLess
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