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("I have always been mystified by international finance since I took a course in it at the University of Chicago 62 years ago," he wrote in a Slate "" exchange a year ago--almost, but not quite, embarrassing me out of a disquisition on the International Monetary Fund and the sad state of the Russian and Japanese economies.)
That includes The Flounder , published in the United States in 1978, an epic disquisition on the perfidy of women (Grass' leftism does not extend to feminism) that is narrated by a fish and continues through centuries, with asides on matters of sexual and culinary history.
She gave me a 15-minute disquisition on the NBA's illegal defense rule: I've never heard it explained so carefully.
Several times a day I still think of Parkes' disquisition on the now-obsolete punctuation mark known as a percontativus , a question mark flopped backward and used to indicate a question that is purely rhetorical.
Especially disconcerting was said to be his lengthy disquisition on numerology.