Received a postcard today from my friend B, whom I've known since I taught him as an undergraduate at Princeton. After ten years' teaching high school, he's now doing graduate work in medieval studies at Oxford. His tutor had recommended an essay on Aquinas by one Victor Preller, B wrote, and in the book where it appeared, Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein, he found a memoir of Preller by yours truly. He'd heard about Victor from me, but this memoir brought it all together into a moving and coherent picture. There's something very lovely about this, because Victor was a medievalist (well, into Aquinas). And studied at Oxford himself - as, for that matter, did I, when I was an undergraduate!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Reformulations
Received a postcard today from my friend B, whom I've known since I taught him as an undergraduate at Princeton. After ten years' teaching high school, he's now doing graduate work in medieval studies at Oxford. His tutor had recommended an essay on Aquinas by one Victor Preller, B wrote, and in the book where it appeared, Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein, he found a memoir of Preller by yours truly. He'd heard about Victor from me, but this memoir brought it all together into a moving and coherent picture. There's something very lovely about this, because Victor was a medievalist (well, into Aquinas). And studied at Oxford himself - as, for that matter, did I, when I was an undergraduate!
