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The catalog said
"English Literature
Brother Tom Price"
and it didn't begin to cover what he was all about. He was a philosopher,
he was a critique, he was an actor, and he was a man who saw each student
individually and
he knew I wanted to write he knew that from day one and I told him I didn't have
time because I worked a part-time job to come here and he said "Go home and do
something for the Exponent!" which was the magazine here at the University of
Dayton at the time.
so I must tell you
you sort of slide things under the door and and wait until the great critic
comments on.
He saw me one day outside the cafeteria and he said three words to me,
that's all just three words.
that's to sustain me for the rest of my life I think.
He looked at me and he said
"you can write"
and I thought
I won't believe him
and I thought no
I mean, he's a man of the cloth he'd have to be on his knees the rest of his life
repenting for this if he didn't mean it.
and I believe Brother Tom Price.
It seems like it was
only yesterday,
and actually it was
twenty two years of syndicated columns and eight books ago.
Incredible.