Scholarly Pursuits Pillows

Academia Can Kill By Degrees

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Apples for sale

"I still haven't decided if I want to be unemployed as an English major or as a Communications major."

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

Remember how you advised me to get a dangerous hobby to build up my self-esteem and impress people? Well, all the dangerous hobbies were already taken. You wrestle alligators

Agility God

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

"Don't just forage - upcycle!"

Paul Ree

'Single math professor in search of an intelligent woman. Send an example of your favorite equation.'

Think Tank

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

Burning the midnight oil.

Assertiveness

Intellectual Property

"Finally...school starts next week."

'We'll take two sets, for upstairs and downstairs.'

"We're hoping that someday Rosalie will be a major player in the creative economy."

The revolution that hit Hollywood hardest:The Thinking Pictures."

'No, you weren't there. But in your expert opinion as a certified brainiac, do you think he did it?'

A person reading an advanced book, standing on the pile of other books that he's had to read in order to become knowledgable enough to reach/read it.

"Okay, you got this! Who introduced the theory of punctuated equilibrium?"

"Mr Newton, we have carefully reviewed your work in alchemy and have come to one conclusion: stick to physics.'

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

The Economy of Ideas

Lost and Profound.

Jacques Lacan

Dept of Egyptology - Toot and Come In.

"...And those are some of the books I would have read if the Internet had never been invented."

George Santayana

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

When English majors become waiters.

Brains