“Dexter Padula, a member of that ubiquitous academic breed, the professional graduate student, forever revising his dissertation while eyeing external reality with the anxious demeanor of a nursing infant struggling to imagine life beyond the tit.”

Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 8 (p. 169)

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