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John R. Yamamoto-Wilson

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in Newcastle, The United Kingdom

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http://educationalhub.org/yamamotowilson/anosensei

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Fiction, Religion, Suspense

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May 2012

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It's been an eventful life! I suppose the central, pivotal event in it was failing my PhD at Cambridge, not once, but twice. Read up on Colin McCabe and the Faculty of English at Cambridge if you're interested in the background to that. From my point of view, I can just sum it up by saying if you're not on either side in a civil war you can expect to get shot down by both sides!

But, as the Dalai Lama says, we learn more from our failures than from our successes. I put academia in the bottom drawer and spent the next few years leading a bohemian kind of life, mostly in the south of Spain. I think I learned more from that than I had from my years as a university student.

Gradually, though, I drifted into teaching, and hence back into academia. ...more

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	Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catholic Literature and the Rise of Anglicanism (Renaissance Monographs Book 28) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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