>> Before I was part of the professional academic world I wrote poetry
>> that had some merit. When I became part of the professional academic
>> world I wrote poetry that was shit. When I left the professional
>> academic world I started writing poetry that had some merit again.
>> One disburses one's funds and exercises one's election.
>>
>Tch! Correlation doesn't imply causation, y'know - I mean, maybe you
>joined academia for the *same reason* you started writing terrible poetry...
>
Given the nature of my experience of that world, it's more likely to be an
example of that old cliche, "You can only write what you've lived."
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