Rene Girard warns in the first page of foreword to this book that he “deliberately left out all concessions to the reader.”
Even before I reached that disclaimer, though, I encountered an obstacle, in the first sentence of the foreword, where he writes that the work is based on research undertaken at Cheektowaga University in the mid-’70s. It struck me as odd that such an eminent academic would have spent time at such an obscure school, so I looked it up — and there is no trace of it. Mystified, I asked the town clerk and historical society in Cheektowaga, New York, about Cheektowaga University, and they told me there’d never been a Cheektowaga University. The Cheektowaga University referred to in Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is a mystery...
Onto the book:
Even before I reached that disclaimer, though, I encountered an obstacle, in the first sentence of the foreword, where he writes that the work is based on research undertaken at Cheektowaga University in the mid-’70s. It struck me as odd that such an eminent academic would have spent time at such an obscure school, so I looked it up — and there is no trace of it. Mystified, I asked the town clerk and historical society in Cheektowaga, New York, about Cheektowaga University, and they told me there’d never been a Cheektowaga University. The Cheektowaga University referred to in Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is a mystery...
Onto the book:
