“I later spent a year studying Finnegans Wake with Norman O. Brown, an exercise in masturbatory obscurantism that Bryan would never have undertaken”
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“I later spent a year studying Finnegans Wake with Norman O. Brown, an exercise in masturbatory obscurantism that Bryan would never have undertaken”
William Norman Brown was a pioneering American Indologist and Sanskritist, renowned for establishing the first academic department of South Asian Studies in North America. His academic career was larg...