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absent-minded professor |
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absent-minded professor personification of one too contemplative to execute practical tasks. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Forgetfulness How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The absent-minded professor, ineffectual
and irrelevant, is, for example, a stock figure of popular
entertainment. Fifty years after its first publication in the Soviet Union by a
popular Russian writer and publisher for children and now translated by
a respected translator of Gogol and Dostoevsky, here is a nonsense verse
about a character whose comically exaggerated behavior invokes the
proverbial absent-minded professor. From the careless way he dressed, which often raised eyebrows, to
his daily lunch - granola, cream and tofu - Braude sometimes seemed to
be an absent-minded professor, preoccupied with his ideas for improving
the city. |
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