Footnotes

Preface

1 Horace, Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999). The original Latin text is “Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, lectorem delectando pariterque monenendo.” It can be found at line 343 of Ars Poetica.

2 Coincidentally, so does The Iliad.

Chapter 2

1 “Father Knows Best” was an American television situation comedy of the day that presented a “typical American family” in which everyone was perfect and all problems were resolved in 30 minutes, less time out for commercial announcements.

2 The careful reader will note that this reinforces the previously mentioned stereotypes. However, it was more common for physics students, for example, to migrate into engineering than ...

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