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Vocal Uncommonplacing I seek to develop among my students a taste for doing the Liberal Arts and humanities by opening up discussion about free places, outside work, career, and the domain of "the professional," where sport, art, critical analysis, value creation, and language-- in short the humanities, can be regained and what Jurgen Habermas called the "collapse of the discussional" might be reversed. Benjamin Hunnicutt Your intellect is in fragments, like bits of gold Scattered over many matters. You must scrape Them Together, so the royal stamp can be pressed into you. Cohere, and you'll be as lovely as Samarkand With its central market, or Damascus. Grain by grain, Collect the parts. You'll be more Magnificent Than a flat coin. You'll be a cup With carvings of the king around the outside. Rumi