literary ruses.

http://passouline.blog.lemonde.fr/2009/10/25/madame-bovary-cest-qui/

your uni sucks.

uq not in top 50. surprise?
uni of sydney slipped two places to 19.
uni of auckland at 42 trounced it in over normal sup. at 45.
but the sorbonne is climbing up the ranks gaining 4 spots at 21.

'you gotta have faith', a famous man once said. indeed.

"Mueller was praised by the Nobel judges as a writer "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed." Her collection of short stories, "Niederungen" (or "Nadirs" ), was smuggled in the 1980s from Romania to Germany, where she won an audience eager to hear her descriptions of life under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Her honor comes on the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism."

damn communism!