I don't like to talk much about my resume on the internet. I think it's in poor

taste but I'm going to make an exception today. A lot of you might

not realize that I studied at Oxford and by that I mean I brought a book there one time

on a long layover and read it for about 15 minutes within the city limits technically

of the community of Oxford in the UK. But the people who actually studied at Oxford where they went and got degrees and took actual classes,

there's a reason that they have caused to brag.

There's an amazing intellectual academic tradition associated with that town and two of the

literary rock stars of the previous century were there working at the same time

that being CS Lewis and J R.R. Tolkien and they would get together and they would hang out and there's this one

particular little pub where they like to hang out called the Eagle and Child.

I got to go there with my buddy Aaron when we were rolling through Oxford that one time

when I studied there for 15

minutes and it's fun to read the stories about what these guys talked about in

there how they debated their approaches to storytelling.

CS Lewis of course is famous for the Chronicles of Narnia, which are a little bit more allegorical

in approach.

And J.R. token is, of course, very famous for the world of Middle Earth that he invented, including

the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, the Somerilian stories, and

Tolkien's work is drenched in deep, meaningful, thematic material, but it's not as allegorical as Lewis.

And my understanding is that they would debate and rib each other a little bit about what is the better

way to tell a story.

And Tolkien even went so far at one point to say something like he didn't like the smell of allegory.

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