Back in the days when saying something mattered I was still finishing under-graduate school. In those days I loved to read Hegel, who was and is irreconcilably dense. I remain irreconcilably dense, but have not the perspicacity to publish anything even remotely academic.
While making this important sojourn into Academia I was fortunate enough to run into a peer, a young woman who also studied Hegel for some unknown reason. When she asked me whom I was studying and writing my bachelor's thesis on, I replied simply with the term: "Hegel." She responded enthusiastically, "Hegel! Cool!"
I think that the young, short, pert, pretty woman with a slightly poor complexion, and who wore too much make-up cosmetic base was actually genuinely enthusiastic about the whole affair of having anything to do with Hegel near her. I believe that, as much as I may have spent the subsequent 20 years lampooning her southern-drawl style voice, she was kind and intelligent. Nevertheless Jan (pronounced "Yan," as in the man's name) and I viciously lampooned her ever after as somewhat of a Philistine. The pronunciation became "Heigl! Cool!" I hope she would forgive me for being a stupid, boorish man. Maybe even join in and tell me about some idiotic turn of speech that made legend.
Actually I know a moment of sheer embarrassment for me: it was during the audition season for the one-act plays my senior year of college. I obtained a part in a play written by a student: it had a vaguely angst-filled air to it, set in some cafe. At the end, my abhorrent acting was lampooned (perhaps it wasn't abhorrent, or at least any more abhorrent than the meaningless play production itself). I was made to look like a jerky buffoon who anticipated the action of the play. (Who could blame me entirely? -It was a young actress kissing me savagely!)
Perhaps our friend, the young woman in the class of 1991 philosophy major at our college had some real beauty. It is probable that that beauty and yearning to study philosophy for some "meaning" was "more" beautiful than the "acute" attractive skin tone and shape of Katherine Heigl. Nonetheless the eye-popping, eye-catching sketch in today's yahoo web page inspired me to construct a full article on this post. Maybe Katherine Heigl has some soul spark beneath her perfect exterior. It's just too much, so forgive me, for, eventually another 20 years.
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