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John R. Yamamoto-Wilson

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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.
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