One of my more eccentric DPhil acquaintances posted this sketch on facebook - which he doodled while attending a really boring conference talk. He does stuff about the history of music and wrote a dissertation on violins. He works for a big auction house now, handling Stradivariuses with white felt gloves. All of this is true, and the reality of this person is even more peppered with delightful arcane eccentricities...
Rebecca Bradley, the Texas Flapper Bandit
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In the 1920s, the role of women in public life was changing. They could
vote, drive, and hold jobs formerly reserved for men, and they reflected
this fre...
so intellectual
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