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I missed that Edward Jay Epstein died of COVID six weeks ago. There's this gem in his NYT obit.

Posted by David (aka David) Mar 24 '24, 14:27

"At Cornell, Mr. Epstein was an erratic student. He was suspended after the 1956 spring semester for failing four courses, although he had received good grades in a 19th-century European literature course taught by Vladimir Nabokov and an A in Professor Hacker’s class on the U.S. Congress."

I picture a young Epstein just looking at every professor like they were fraudulent morons until he got to Nabokov's class and was like, "Ooh, you just published Lolita! You're not a waste of my time!"

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Here's the obit if you want to read about one of the modern world's most interesting people. -- (link) - David Mar 24, 14:28

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I missed that Edward Jay Epstein died of COVID six weeks ago. There's this gem in his NYT obit.

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