Blowing Bubbles
Frankenstein's monster struggles with words in the movies, but in the book, he has stuff to say.
The day I knew the Hamline Oracle, the student newspaper that has existed since 1888, would publish a story involving the signs on my door, I took a cheap, mass-produced, Warhol-style 8X10 print to my office at Hamline University. Cheap, mass-produced, and Warhol were all important factors in my choice. The image is of the movie version of Frankenstein’s monster blowing bubbles. That was also important.
I made a makeshift backing mat using one of the signs I had replaced due to a typo, the one saying Hamline taught me to push back against abusive systems. I then put the print in one of the leftover frames and put it on the bulletin board next to my desk.
Last semester I wrote about the creepy feeling that I am the value-brand professor, the cheap knockoff of something more expensive. That one’s here:
When I look at the historical projection of my sense of…
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