Eric Larsen

TITLE PAGE:

VOLUME SIXTEEN
of
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN NATION

A New & Revised Edition

(The Universities of Asia Press, Beijing, 2147, X. Jin Li, General Editor)

Entitled:

"The Role, Status, and Condition
of Intellectuals in Higher Education
During the Middle and Late Ante-Penultimate
Period of the Collapse"

And Consisting of

The Important Segments of the Larsen Papers:
Fragments I-VII and the Famous "Diary"
all in
The Bhaskara Presentation,
Newly Edited & Revised by
X. Jin Li,
General Editor
The Universities of Asia Press

TABLE OF CONTENTS

.... ....
01) ....A Note to the Reader..................................................................p. 2560
02) ....Editor's Foreword.......................................................................p. 2562
03).... The "Diary" Part 1......................................................................p. 2573
04) ....Fragment I ("Budgetary")............................................................p. 2596
05) ....Fragment II ("Voicemail")............................................................p. 2611
06) ....Fragment VI ("My Academic Career" Pt. 1)..................................p. 2624
07) ....The "Diary" Part 2......................................................................p. 2633
08) ....Fragment III ("My Intellectual Life")..............................................p. 2650
09) ....Fragment VI ("My Academic Career" Pt. 2)..................................p. 2706
10) ....Fragment IV ("The Collaborative Destruction of . . . " Pt. 1)............p. 2712
11).... Fragment IV ("The Collaborative Destruction of . . ." Pt. 2)............ p. 2748
11).... Fragment VI ("My Academic Career" Pt. 3)..................................p. 2810
12) ....Fragment V ("The Significance of Things Unseen")...................... p. 2818
13) ....Fragment VI ("My Academic Career" Pt. 4) .................................p. 2839
14).... The "Diary" Part 3 .....................................................................p. 2856
15).... Fragment VII ("The Last Fragment").............................................p. 2897
16).... Editor's Afterword ......................................................................p. 2952
17) ....Appendix One (A Chronology of the Collapse) .............................p. 2955

A NOTE TO THE READER

..........Volume Sixteen of that indispensable and magisterial work of historical scholarship, The Decline and Fall of the American Nation, as every reader knows, consists entirely of the annotated and edited papers of Eric Larsen, M.A., Ph.D., member of the faculty of The Actaeon College of Institutional Analysis and Social Control, The University of New York (New York, New York, United States of America, The Americas), during what is now known to have been the Late Ante-Penultimate and the Early Penultimate Period of Collapse. Evidence within these unique and famous papers themselves, along with a small number of very rare corroborative discoveries found through subsequent archaeological work in the layers of Actaeon's rubble, indicate that Larsen, during this specified period, was engaged in a highly ambitious project, to which he had given the general working title of "My Life in Education and the Arts Before and During the Gathering of the Great Calamity As I Have Experienced and Now Believe I Understand It." That project, as specialists in this area of The Collapse generally agree, consisted mainly of new work written for the occasion of the doomed project itself, but also of certain earlier pieces refurbished for inclusion in it. Whether or not the author seriously hoped for successful publication of so radical a work, and, if he did have that hope, exactly how he imagined he could safely bring about its realization, are questions whose answers remain unknown.

..........It should be mentioned, in accordance with Volume Sixteen's title page, that the edition of the papers used as a basis for this current and revised edition is the famous "Ceylon Version" of 2110. We have made no changes in that edition's organization or sequence of the papers-no changes, that is, in the so-called "Bhaskara Presentation," which was the first (following studies making use of both chemical and textual evidence)* to break up the famous "Diary" itself* * and present that work in three separate sections. This was done in the belief that such a change allowed for a more holistic and less linear reading and an experience therefore far more in keeping with this strongly anti-Simplification author's own true aims. The Bhaskara Presentation, of course, was also the first to present the Larsen fragments in the sequence now generally believed to be that intended by the author rather than in the order of their discovery. The sequence of the archaeological discoveries, however, as tradition dictates, remains, and is expressed by the Roman numerals that identify each fragment, sometimes functioning, further, as a convenient reference to it.

..........We have always found the Bhaskara Presentation both effective and convincing, and therefore have adopted it in its entirety.

.........................................................................................X. Jin Li, General Editor

..........* See Maximillian Shandra, Dating the Larsen Papers: A Writer's Progress toward Calamity (Bangkok, 2096).

..........* * In the Bhaskara Presentation also, "Fragment VI" was already segmented, being broken into four separate sections, although these themselves remained, as they do now, in a chronological order. (Editor)

APPENDIX

A Chronology of the Collapse of the American Nation from the Early Preliminary through the Late Ultimate and on to the End A Chronology of the Collapse of the American Nation
from the Early Preliminary through the
Late Ultimate and on to
the End

Early Preliminary (1950-1964)
Middle Preliminary (1964-1971)
Late Preliminary (1971-1983)

Early Ante-Penultimate (1983-1996)
Middle Ante-Penultimate (1996-2000)
Late Ante-Penultimate (2000-2006)

Early Penultimate (2006-2012)
Middle Penultimate (2013-2019)
Late Penultimate (2020-2024)

Early Ultimate(2025-2031)
Middle Ultimate(2032-2037)
Late Ultimate(2037-2041)

The Collapse (2042?)

>>Read "Editor's Forword" and "A Note on the Condition of the Papers">>>
>> Read Fragment III, "My Intellectual Life, Part One">>>
>>Go back to "About">>>



	About xx\| xxBooks xx\|xxContact xx\| xxReviewsxx \|xx Ideas xx\|xx Links
	TITLE PAGE: VOLUME SIXTEEN of THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN NATION A New & Revised Edition (The Universities of Asia Press, Beijing, 2147, X. Jin Li, General Editor) Entitled: "The Role, Status, and Condition of Intellectuals in Higher Education During the Middle and Late Ante-Penultimate Period of the Collapse" And Consisting of The Important Segments of the Larsen Papers: Fragments I-VII and the Famous "Diary" all in The Bhaskara Presentation, Newly Edited & Revised by X. Jin Li, General Editor The Universities of Asia Press TABLE OF CONTENTS .... .... 01) ....A Note to the Reader..................................................................p. 2560 02) ....Editor's Foreword.......................................................................p. 2562 03).... The "Diary" Part 1......................................................................p. 2573 04) ....Fragment I ("Budgetary")............................................................p. 2596 05) ....Fragment II ("Voicemail")............................................................p. 2611 06) ....Fragment VI ("My Academic Career" Pt. 1)..................................p. 2624 07) ....The "Diary" Part 2......................................................................p. 2633 08) ....Fragment III ("My Intellectual Life")..............................................p. 2650 09) ....Fragment VI ("My Academic Career" Pt. 2)..................................p. 2706 10) ....Fragment IV ("The Collaborative Destruction of . . . " Pt. 1)............p. 2712 11).... Fragment IV ("The Collaborative Destruction of . . ." Pt. 2)............ p. 2748 11).... Fragment VI ("My Academic Career" Pt. 3)..................................p. 2810 12) ....Fragment V ("The Significance of Things Unseen")...................... p. 2818 13) ....Fragment VI ("My Academic Career" Pt. 4) .................................p. 2839 14).... The "Diary" Part 3 .....................................................................p. 2856 15).... Fragment VII ("The Last Fragment").............................................p. 2897 16).... Editor's Afterword ......................................................................p. 2952 17) ....Appendix One (A Chronology of the Collapse) .............................p. 2955 A NOTE TO THE READER ..........Volume Sixteen of that indispensable and magisterial work of historical scholarship, The Decline and Fall of the American Nation, as every reader knows, consists entirely of the annotated and edited papers of Eric Larsen, M.A., Ph.D., member of the faculty of The Actaeon College of Institutional Analysis and Social Control, The University of New York (New York, New York, United States of America, The Americas), during what is now known to have been the Late Ante-Penultimate and the Early Penultimate Period of Collapse. Evidence within these unique and famous papers themselves, along with a small number of very rare corroborative discoveries found through subsequent archaeological work in the layers of Actaeon's rubble, indicate that Larsen, during this specified period, was engaged in a highly ambitious project, to which he had given the general working title of "My Life in Education and the Arts Before and During the Gathering of the Great Calamity As I Have Experienced and Now Believe I Understand It." That project, as specialists in this area of The Collapse generally agree, consisted mainly of new work written for the occasion of the doomed project itself, but also of certain earlier pieces refurbished for inclusion in it. Whether or not the author seriously hoped for successful publication of so radical a work, and, if he did have that hope, exactly how he imagined he could safely bring about its realization, are questions whose answers remain unknown. ..........It should be mentioned, in accordance with Volume Sixteen's title page, that the edition of the papers used as a basis for this current and revised edition is the famous "Ceylon Version" of 2110. We have made no changes in that edition's organization or sequence of the papers-no changes, that is, in the so-called "Bhaskara Presentation," which was the first (following studies making use of both chemical and textual evidence)* to break up the famous "Diary" itself* * and present that work in three separate sections. This was done in the belief that such a change allowed for a more holistic and less linear reading and an experience therefore far more in keeping with this strongly anti-Simplification author's own true aims. The Bhaskara Presentation, of course, was also the first to present the Larsen fragments in the sequence now generally believed to be that intended by the author rather than in the order of their discovery. The sequence of the archaeological discoveries, however, as tradition dictates, remains, and is expressed by the Roman numerals that identify each fragment, sometimes functioning, further, as a convenient reference to it. ..........We have always found the Bhaskara Presentation both effective and convincing, and therefore have adopted it in its entirety. .........................................................................................X. Jin Li, General Editor ..........* See Maximillian Shandra, Dating the Larsen Papers: A Writer's Progress toward Calamity (Bangkok, 2096). ..........* * In the Bhaskara Presentation also, "Fragment VI" was already segmented, being broken into four separate sections, although these themselves remained, as they do now, in a chronological order. (Editor) APPENDIX A Chronology of the Collapse of the American Nation from the Early Preliminary through the Late Ultimate and on to the End A Chronology of the Collapse of the American Nation from the Early Preliminary through the Late Ultimate and on to the End Early Preliminary (1950-1964) Middle Preliminary (1964-1971) Late Preliminary (1971-1983) Early Ante-Penultimate (1983-1996) Middle Ante-Penultimate (1996-2000) Late Ante-Penultimate (2000-2006) Early Penultimate (2006-2012) Middle Penultimate (2013-2019) Late Penultimate (2020-2024) Early Ultimate(2025-2031) Middle Ultimate(2032-2037) Late Ultimate(2037-2041) The Collapse (2042?) >>Read "Editor's Forword" and "A Note on the Condition of the Papers">>> >> Read Fragment III, "My Intellectual Life, Part One">>> >>Go back to "About">>>