holding triple Ph.D.s in molecular engineering, astrophysics and
Chaucer.
Do you think he has Mary Sues with profiles like this in any of his
books? "The brilliant Dr. Hoet Bealadore sat in his office with a
schematic for a new kind of nanoprotein on his computer screen and
Chaucer's original manuscript of The Canterbury Tales open
on his lap. He meditated on the subtle interconnections between
these two apparently unrelated objects -- the former a product of
his Ph.D research in molecular engineering at MIT, the latter the
result of his archival work at Magadalene Library, Oxford, for his
other doctorate. He sat in a specially constructed,
climate-controlled laboratory/library. Nestled amongst the
inferometers and fractionators and nanobot monitors were a
Shakespeare folio, Jane Austen's seventh novel and a chapter of
Ulysses written by Joyce in Dublin. Bealadore chose to do his work
from here these days, indepedently, ever since his tenure case at
Harvard had been derailed by Susan Estrogen, the bitter and
childless chairman -- or rather, chairwomyn! -- of the
English department.
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