Okay, so I am reading Doris Lessing's "The Grandmothers" now and I came across this passage that made me realize that even great writers can be really dumb about how academia works, or maybe it is wildly different in the UK, but I doubt it.
"To deal with her feelings of emptiness and loss, she accepted a job at the university as a full-time teacher of drama, worked hard, swam twice a day, took sleeping pills."
Oh, the tragedy of having to accept a full-time academic position, oh, the sorrow of it!
Oh, please! How unlikely and unrealistic. I'm disappointed.
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