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PRINCETON, N J--On April Fool's Day--coincidentally, the due date for Comparative Literature theses--three extra mysterious theses-- were placed in the mailbox of David Quint, a Princeton professor of Comparative Literature, a half hour before the deadline.
The titles of the three theses were: "Strength and Wealth: Dostoyevsky's Bionic Hero or Six Million Ruble Man," by K. Brothers, Princeton class of '82, "Liquification and Deconstructionism. The Image of the Blender in Proust, Flaubert and Joyee," by Petrarcha Checker '85, and "The Naked Eye and Other Images of Obscenity in 'I Am a Camera' and 'The Eye of the Needle," by Ansel Hansel'89.
One thesis began "Be it rhetorically semantic that one should voice juxtaposition, intertextuality is an alarming possibility." The Daily Princetonian reported recently.
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