Given that “human,” in a biological sense, is just one step in some grander evolutionary process, Arthur C. Clarke wondered whether we might one day ditch our corporeal forms entirely and “live” forever as non-physical entities. One day, maybe, but not soon enough for the idea’s originator - Clarke is dead at the age of ninety.

Jews don’t often miss opportunities to talk up past injustices and Princeton literature doesn’t often miss opportunities to talk up Fitzgerald.

I'm sure I'm not alone in suspecting that, on occasion, those perfectly-overheard quotes reported in the “Verbatim” column of this paper are fabricated. It’s easy to imagine the editors sitting around a table, perhaps aided by humor-inducing beverages, cracking jokes until the quotes have written themselves.

I’ll give it to you real quick: the state of political discourse on campus? It sucks

So, to briefly memorialize the show for now: it’s a play about a play--a construction called, thanks again to ‘kipedia, a ``mise en abyme”--about Edgar Alan Poe.