celebrity profs
Dwelling in city London, you can read the local papers and find your department professors engaging in another one of their weekly "in the limelight" rhetorics. This makes me slightly proud. JS usually appears every Monday in G2, JM is Sunday book review king. I haven't been to JS's classes, but have seen JM--always in black, like Hamlet--quite a lot. The truth about celebrity profs., humpf... I've heard if you want to go to Univ. of Manchester just to see Terry Eagleton, dream on. The closest you get to him is through the department Web site. Just think of it: with all that fame, he must be constantly traveling and giving talks. As for 80-something Kurt Vonnegut, somehow students aren't too happy with his hollow lectures--puffing and bashing the entire session. Oh, well. UCL profs are definitely not like that.