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Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Hearts and Minds and Books Open to the Autumn Air
The Dreaming Water Towers of State University
“In the quad, where we lay our scene…”
-As Shakespeare did not say
Math students whose favorite dessert was always pi
Engineering students with leather scabbards at their belts
Ready to charge into battle with their Kueffel and Essers
Against heretics who believed in “It’s close enough”
Historians who made the acorns drop
With their thunderous defenses of Pirenne
And measured Turner’s western frontier thesis
Against the Czarist empire’s eastern lands
English majors (and maybe French lieutenants)
Free-versifiers arguing against disciplined meter
The next Rod Mckuen with his guitar
Biologists considering an ant’s nutritional needs
And hearts and minds and books, books everywhere -
All open to thought and the autumn air
It wasn’t that dreamy; I worked the night shift seven nights each week and often double shifts on the weekends in order to live and study, and so was constantly tired. But there were indeed golden moments…
