Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Indeed, What regiment?

From A Literary Education by Joseph Epstein. Page 10.
When a student in the Lionel Trilling story "Of This Time, Of That Place" tells the professor who is the story's protagonist that he used to be an English major, the professor, in the only humorous remark I have discovered in all of Trilling's writing, replies: "Indeed, What regiment?"

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