{"id":2,"date":"2006-04-28T03:42:50","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T07:42:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-14T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T15:24:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/revision\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a member of the Class of 1964. I entered Harvard in the fall of 1960 and took a leave of absence after my freshman year. In the summer of 1961 I went to what was then Tanganyika with a group of other Harvard students. When most of them returned to the United States at the end of the summer, I remained, doing famine relief work.<\/p>\n

I went back to Harvard in the fall of 1962 and continued my studies until the spring of 1964, when I was given “permission to withdraw.” I spent six months in the Army Reserve, in order to avoid being drafted and sent to Vietnam, and then for most of the next three years I worked and traveled in Quebec, the Arctic, British Columbia, eastern and southern Africa, and Israel. I re-entered Harvard in the fall of 1967 and received the B.A. degree in the spring of 1968.<\/p>\n

Since 1979 I have made my home in the Pacific Region, East Asia, and Europe. I have not had occasion to return to the United States in almost forty years, except for visits to various American embassies and consulates – which are of course technically U.S. territory – in order to renew my passport.<\/em><\/strong>
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\nNote: In the headings for some of the chapters, there are quotations in German – followed by an English translation – from books that were originally written in English. The reason for this oddity is that in preparing this draft of the novel, I had only the German version of these works available to me, and rather than omit the quotiations entirely, I thought it might be acceptable to provide them in German, on a provisional basis, along with my own English translation<\/em>.<\/strong>
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\nRobert John Bennett<\/em><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Robert John Bennett
\nErnst-Gnoss-Strasse 22
\n40219 Dusseldorf
\nGermany
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\nrjbennett@post.harvard.edu
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