A Somewhat Dour Introduction
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This introduction offers an overview of the basic themes of the book, highlighting the author’s sense of gloom and doom, his view of life as a series of failures in a game of humiliation as the score gets evermore lopsided as one ages. It also provides some autobiography. The chapter’s centerpiece is an account of an embarrassing incident at All Souls College where the author, as in Thor’s visit to Útgarðaloki, found his wine glass connected to the sea. He made a drunken fool of himself before portraits of some of his heroes that graced the walls of the room where the event occurred.
2009 ◽
Vol 19
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pp. 074003
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2011 ◽
Vol 1
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pp. 206
2015 ◽
Vol 9
(5)
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pp. JAMDSM0059-JAMDSM0059
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