Comments on: Post Graduate

By: Ken Thomas '93

Ken Thomas '93 — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:34:55 +0000

For the past four years, the Webbs’ life has followed the same bizarre pattern. ‘One night we’ll be lying in bed, watching television and talking away. Then the next morning Fred will wake up as a five-year-old. It’s like a totally clear-cut process.

But when she’s going the other way, it’s a little more difficult. She seems less willing to make that transition. It’s a complicated thing and there’s nowhere to turn to to look for information. As far as I can discover, there’s no precedent for it.’

Odd that my memory, as it did after Katie Craig’s passing, finds so many similar examples in the history of Williams.

‘But for the grace of G-d,’ pass we all…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:25:50 +0000

A Williams role model?
Never saw the graduate. Do not intend to view it in the future.
I found this gentleman’s biographical sketch and read about him, his wife and children. He should not be paid a farthing. Not a single pence. He should be thrown out of his lodgings for back rent. Every fool should be parted with his possessions. This man has forsaken his soul.

Raised his children in a nudist colony?
Where his children eat a copy of the graduate with cranberries?
Where his wife is FRED?
And on and on and on.

Boring.
Not worth the effort to even spend a minute with someone like him. He should work as an undertaker’s assistant.

By: anon /04

anon /04 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:56:41 +0000

The article which seems to be the root of his currency in the news:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=N45HTG34NMGULQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/arts/2007/05/27/svgraduate127.xml

By: frank uible

frank uible — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:09:31 +0000

As I recall, long ago there appeared in public print further poignant details of Webb’s relationship with Fred. I probably can’t do them justice in any attempt at a recap, and Webb may just as soon see them remain lost. Nonetheless some of you sentimental googlers might be able to find them. David, in my opinion Webb is a person from whom a speech and a trailing Q & A period about meeting the vicissitudes of life Williams students (and many others) might very well benefit.