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| Friday, April 27, 2007 12:07PM | | | | Barnaby in Translation | Tags: baseball, Columbia, English, invasive, Ma Jian, Francesc
| | | Barnaby, if you’ll recall, himself attended Columbia College but was kicked out five hours before commencement; and though his better sense tells him that everyone who, in the course of his exuberant senior-year prank, was covered with chicken blood or otherwise molested, must by now have forgiven, or forgotten, or at least satisfied his vengeance by contemplating the state of Barnaby’s life; still, Barnaby took no chances—he walked into Columbia’s Faculty House in a false mustache, fedora, and trench coat, and in a thick coat of a cologne that he normally doesn’t wear. (To throw them off the scent, if you will.)
The name of the talk he attended was “English: An Invasive Species?” It was moderated by David Damrosch. After a series... | | | | | |
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