ADS visibility & madman

[Baker, John]

        What about those of us who fit in more than one line?

John Baker, Jackleg Lawyer and Wannabe Philologist

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Thompson [SMTP:george.thompson at NYU.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:07 PM
> To:   ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      Re: ADS visibility & madman
>
> Chicking the source recommended by A Allen, I learn that Ruloff
> "had been a botanical physician, jackleg lawyer, schoolmaster,
> itinerant lecturer, phrenologist, photographer, mechanical inventor
> and, in his final incarnation, philologist-all borderline professions
> that had traditionally served as an avenue to public respectability for
> gifted, ambitious, or unprincipled men of little means."
>
> Can we all form up in three lines?  The gifted over there, the
> ambitious along the wall, and the unprincipled right here.
>
> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African
> Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.
>