Both of us had to figure out what to do when our fellowships ran out, whether to go back to our graduate studies in English, Larry at Rice, I at Stanford. The university is an intellectual institution. Conceived and administered by the intellect and for the intellect, as is the case with the rest of our educational system. It's labels and categories and score cards, side to side, top to bottom, increasing as you advance. The intellect deals in maps, not in territories.
Art deals in and from territories.
The intellect is Apollonian energy through and through, opposite the soul on a diagram of the human intelligence. My intellect connects me with the nameable, knowable world, and with my desire to organize it, and obscures the all- important mystery where real order is. Something along those lines. The life of the mind is far more varied and dynamic, thank God, than what's being nourished by our educational philosophies, and there are serious confusions involved, it seems to me. I've heard you say similar things before.