This man is crazy! What is up with his underwear fetish? I think he mentions Neapolitan’s underwear three times!

Anyway, John Gaddis may have a weird fascination with underwear, but his book rocks my world! I have been trying, desperately to find my place in academics. I started out majoring in theatre at the College of Charleston. Somehow, I ended up here at Furman.
My days are numbered here. I only have a year left.
Now, that I am a history major, (have been for some time now), I have constantly seconded guessed myself. What is the importance of history, besides just knowing facts? Up chucking random information on a dime is something I’m afraid I will never master. What I am good at is comparing and analyzing facts. After reading this book, I realized that history is a good tale neatly packaged in the brilliance of a particular kind of process. The process of finding a good fit where the past glides into the present is based on Gaddis’s three stage process; “connecting reality, representation, and persuasion”. These stages define the entire job description of a historian, if not that, then a scientist. If indeed I am to make a “fit” in this no man’s land, that has been forged by others before me, then as Gaddis himself has said, [I’m] “at the point of no return” the moment at which an equilibrium that once existed [has] ceased.” In this, I have found a meaning to being a product of my time, directed on this particular general path, I am able to find that illusive area where imagination collides with reality.

Pg. 99