Monday, August 3, 2015

Concerning Some of My Intellectual Heroes and Their Attendant Mustaches

Tomorrow I start prelims. I'm nervous. But excited. I think I'm ready? But can one ever really be ready? I dunno. But tomorrow I find out.

Anyway, when I started preparing for prelims a while back I knew that I was going to need a little extra help. So I decided to invoke the aid of three mustachioed intellectual heroes of mine. Hoping against hope that at least some of their genius came from their facial hairs, I decided grew out my mustache yet again. You know as a sort of appeal to their wisdom. So here 'tis:


Any perfectly objective analysis of this mustache couldn't help but recognize that this mustache is glorious and beautiful, easily outstripping any mustaches I've grown in the past. My only hope is that it will be enough to channel the brilliance of these three outstanding gentlemen:

Kenneth Burke:


John Dewey:


Vernon Dunn:


So here's hoping (and praying) that I do my mustachioed brethren (and father) justice over the next week or so.


3 comments:

  1. You did right well until you got to the last one. I'm afraid that he'll contribute enough of a negative effect that he will cancel out the other two, and you will be all your own once again. But thank you for the flattering comparison, anyway.

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  2. You did right well until you got to the last one. I'm afraid that he'll contribute enough of a negative effect that he will cancel out the other two, and you will be all your own once again. But thank you for the flattering comparison, anyway.

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  3. Loving that pic of your dad! Never knew he had a stache!

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