One of my less treasured memories is of a State of the Union address, or possibly a presidential inauguration, at which a Nobel Laureate got up and read
It can’t have been a State of the Union address, since no one speaks at those except the President(*). On the other hand, Nobel Laureates reading poetry is exactly the kind of thing that happens at presidential inaugurations.
( )And this was before Obama(*) and after T. Roosevelt, so the President wouldn’t have been a Nobel Laureate himself .
(**)The LW spellchecker does not recognize this word (!)
It can’t have been a State of the Union address, since no one speaks at those except the President(*). On the other hand, Nobel Laureates reading poetry is exactly the kind of thing that happens at presidential inaugurations.
( )And this was before Obama(*) and after T. Roosevelt, so the President wouldn’t have been a Nobel Laureate himself .
(**)The LW spellchecker does not recognize this word (!)
should you really be that surprised by this?
I wish the exclamation point had been its own footnote.
David Foster Wallace, we miss you.