That is one very interesting character. Thanks for posting this.
For those who haven't, i urge you to click on the Robert Bausch link.
Here's three things that i really liked:
"The Bausch brothers — identical twins who were both red-haired, bearded and left-handed — were often mistaken for each other and occasionally taught each other’s classes without telling the students."
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“People ask me, ‘How come you write about despair and death?’ ” he said in 1982. “And I say, because our childhood was so perfect. It was an extraordinary disillusionment to find out that the world wasn’t like that.”
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During a temporary assignment at American University, he taught a freshman honors class in which each student was required to deliver an oral report.
When one student failed to show up to give his report, his roommate explained, “He’s not feeling too well.”
“Is that a fact?” Mr. Bausch replied, according to another AU faculty member who spoke to The Post in 2002.
Mr. Bausch then took the entire class on a field trip across campus to the absent student’s dormitory room. Mr. Bausch pounded on the door until the groggy student appeared, clad only in a towel. He promptly got dressed and rejoined the class.
After that, Mr. Bausch’s colleague said, “Bob had no further trouble with absentees.”
He was an amazing teacher, writer and friend. I was working in a bookstore when I met Bob (taking the first of many writing workshops with him) and one day I saw him from behind standing in the fiction section. I walked toward him, my arm outstretched to wrap around his shoulder, and realized, BEFORE I made contact, that it was Dick. He was a good sport about it.
I highly recommend both Bausch's writing. I'm biased, though toward Bob's.
My friend and teacher, Robert Bausch. Bob is on the left. His twin brother, Richard (also a fine writer) is on the right. I think.
That is one very interesting character. Thanks for posting this.
For those who haven't, i urge you to click on the Robert Bausch link.
Here's three things that i really liked:
"The Bausch brothers — identical twins who were both red-haired, bearded and left-handed — were often mistaken for each other and occasionally taught each other’s classes without telling the students."
——-
“People ask me, ‘How come you write about despair and death?’ ” he said in 1982. “And I say, because our childhood was so perfect. It was an extraordinary disillusionment to find out that the world wasn’t like that.”
——-
During a temporary assignment at American University, he taught a freshman honors class in which each student was required to deliver an oral report.
When one student failed to show up to give his report, his roommate explained, “He’s not feeling too well.”
“Is that a fact?” Mr. Bausch replied, according to another AU faculty member who spoke to The Post in 2002.
Mr. Bausch then took the entire class on a field trip across campus to the absent student’s dormitory room. Mr. Bausch pounded on the door until the groggy student appeared, clad only in a towel. He promptly got dressed and rejoined the class.
After that, Mr. Bausch’s colleague said, “Bob had no further trouble with absentees.”
That is one very interesting character. Thanks for posting this.
He was a good sport about it.
