“ ‘In considering this strangely neglected topic,’ it began. This what neglected topic? This strangely neglected what?” His grinding bore of a love life with the lecturer Margaret Peel, a neurotic skilled in manipulation, is no better—ergo her (faux) suicide attempt. “Then, just before I went under, I suddenly stopped caring,” she tells Jim. This timeless satire of academia even manages a happy ending with Jim’s contorted “Sex Life in Ancient Roman face.”Maria’s WarBy Maria Bochkareva (2016)2.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 16, 2020 14:48 UTC