This week in the Junior Spotlight: Andry Sitara Ulrich DeJong (’15).
1. What is one thing your fellow English majors don’t know about you?
I never cried on airplanes when I was a baby because my mom would drug me with cough syrup.
2. Why are you an English major? Why not History, SoAn, CAMS, etc.?
“I must declare an interest before I proceed: I am not going to be
speaking in the first place as an academic; and even when I speak as a
writer it does not mean that I’m talking like an artisan about my job
or my craft: I am speaking as a lover. I am hopelessly, irrevocably,
crazily, stupidly, ecstatically, head-over-heels in love with the
novel. And the wonder of this situation is that the novel ultimately
never says no–even though it invariably plays hard-to-get.” –André P. Brink
3. What is one book you’d be fine never reading again?
The Swiss Family Robinson by J.D. Wyss. It’s the only book I ever threw against a wall.
4. You’re stranded on a desert island and can only bring three books. Which books would you bring?
The complete works of Shakespeare
The Bhagavad Gita
The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles