From Zadie Smith's On Beauty

"To enact with one sudden tug (like a boy removing his friend's shorts in front of the opposing team) a complete exposure, a cataclysmic embarrassment - this is one of the purest academic pleasures" (29).

From A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book

A lovely quote from The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt, on the joys of putting together a syllabus:

"There is a particular aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board" (119).