re: Paperwasp AMA thread.

Ah, yes … well I remember my days studying under Karl Barth at the University of Göttingen, where, between drags on his ubiquitous cigarette (did you know a man — if he’s really determined to — can smoke five packs a day?), he impressed upon me the importance of keeping my C.V. quite current — sometimes yelling, no less — whilst beating me about the head and chest with a extravagantly large and, dare I say, sententious branch he snapped off the oak outside his office.

My salad years, you might say.