a Levi classic

Here is possibly Levi’s MOST INTERESTING POST OF ALL TIME. About halfway through, he tells stories about which he has previously hinted obliquely (I didn’t know them until now)–

(a) his real name was withheld from him until age 9 or 10

(b) he wrote his dissertation before his M.A. thesis (he overshot the mark and wrote a long and excellent M.A. that his advisors urged him to safeguard for his Ph.D. while writing something shorter for the Master’s; it’s a story for the ages)