I quoted de Beauvoir as I was preparing my thesis. My supervisor said "Was she in the discourse?" So I asked Ann Bannon if she had ever read 'The Second Sex'. "Yes," she said, "in the original French." Win!
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Impressive, Paul. And a good story.
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Well, I already knew that AB had been a "Big 10" college girl and had gone on to become a Professor of Linguistics!
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