kirby-smith, on education:
"i honestly don't think you people have cause for complaint just because you have 9 a.m. lectures here. 10 years ago all of us had to be in class by 8 on the dot every day, and 20 years ago most colleges had saturday classes as well. and, in world war 2, they made officer cadets sit through 14 hour days, 6 days a week, so that they could get their degrees faster, so that they could be commissioned sooner, so that they could be packed off to europe to be killed."

upon which he leads us down to the oyster reef where we all sink up to our ankles in mud and ooze while he delivers non-stop commentary on algae, fiddler crabs, conch fishing, upstate New York, boots.

Books, per recommendation:
Flying to Nowhere - John Fuller