Jennifer Boylan's New York Times Op-Ed
Filed By Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 05, 2011 9:00 AM
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Jennifer Finney Boylan, Professor of English at Colby College, is well known in our circles as the best-selling author of She's Not There, a memoir of "a life in two genders," though she's also written a dozen other books worth reading. She has an op-ed in the New York Times today entitled "This Astronomical Recession." It's about Maine, outer space, the recession, and a man who built a model of something that is 94 miles long, as Jennifer indicated on her Facebook page.
As befits a Professor of English with a comic bent, it's filled with metaphor and hypocatastasis and other Magickal Feats of English Composition, which, of course, meant that it took me a few reads to figger it out. We lawyers are such literal-minded beasts. I prolly got it all wrong, but as I read it, there is an eerie similarity between the indifferent solar system, where entropy is playing havoc with our paint jobs and our status (alas, poor Pluto), and our downsized and recessionized lives, particularly those who already were in hardship before the recession.