Dec 17, 2009
The first few pages of “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” run quickly through ten years in the life of Ralph Wyman, a young man whose father tells him, on Ralph's graduation from high school, that life is a “very serious matter” and “an arduous undertaking,” which, despite its difficulties, can still be rewarding. Early in his college career, Ralph finds himself discarding potential careers he had envisioned for himself—law and medicine—when he finds the work too difficult or emotionally stultifying. He turns to literature and philosophy, in which he...
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