As final exams wrap up, scenesters submit favorite quotes from their current studying endeavors. “I have two epigraphs for this essay … The second is a report by the Wolf-Man of what he thought to himself shortly after he met Freud for the first time: ‘this man is a Jewish swindler, he wants to use me from behind and shit on my head.’ This paper is dedicated to the proposition that the Wold-Man got it right.” – Stanley Fish, “Withholding the Missing Portion: Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric” (Submitted by Alison Greenberg.) As for the grass, it grew as scant as hair In leprosy; thin dry blades pricked the mud Which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, Stood stupefied, however he came there: Thrust out past service from the devil’s stud – Robert Browning, Childe Roland To the Dark Tower Came, London : 1850 (Submitted by Maria Yagoda.) A message from Gabriel Barcia: “I don’t write papers because my classes are all sciences, but here’s what J. R. Wade had to say about cocaine in Chapter 19, page 882 of Organic Chemistry”>… “Treating cocaine hydrochloride with sodium hydroxide and extracting it into ether converts it back to the volatile ‘free base’ for smoking [...] A simpler alternative is to mix a paste of hydrochloride with sodium bicarbonate and let it dry into ‘rocks.’”


