He wrote that to me publicly on Facebook. I barely knew this guy and here he was posting the very question that kept me awake at night. He was obviously ribbing me, but there was a tinge to it. Kinda like that an adolescent male buck tentatively knocking horns with the alpha, just to make sure the ol' guy still had it in him and was willing to put up a fight.
I had to ram my head back into his, that much was clear. I typed my first response, something flippant and douche-filled that referenced my Ph.D. Über douche. As I reread it I hated the person whose voice it came out of. I'm not self-conscious about my intelligence. Throwing all of my formal learning in his face would only prove him right. When your only defense is letters on a piece of paper, you got nothing. Advanced degrees are just symbols of knowledge, but is the knowledge itself that carries value. That first attempt was quickly highlighted and deleted.
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| He certainly is a Moby Dick . . . . (illustration by Michael Hawthrone) |
