Article note: Neat.
There's a ...probably not super healthy for me to be self-reinforcing... oft-repeated lesson about the seriousness which which to take academic credentials in there.
Despite my manly looks, I am horribly timid. My romantic soul gets all clammy and shivery at the thought of running into some awful indecent unpleasantness.
— Humbert Humbert, from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”