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Peter R. Pouncey


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Qingdao, China

Peter R. Pouncey (born 1937) is an author, classicist, and university administrator. The son of a British father and a French-British mother, he was born in Tsingtao (now Qingdao), China. At the end of World War II, after several dislocations and separations, his family reassembled in England, and Pouncey was educated there in boarding schools and at Oxford. For a time, he studied for the Jesuit priesthood but ultimately experienced a loss of faith.

Shortly after obtaining a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969, he was appointed assistant professor of Greek and Latin in the Classics Department. In 1972 he took up the post of Dean at Columbia College. As Dean, he was a forceful proponent of admitting women to the college, going so far as to ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 871 ratings · 189 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors
Rules for Old Men Waiting
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“Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.”
― Peter Pouncey, Rules for Old Men Waiting
tags: grief, grieving, mourning
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“. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.”
― Peter Pouncey, Rules for Old Men Waiting
tags: freefall, paradise-lost, sin
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“Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.”
― Peter Pouncey, Rules for Old Men Waiting
tags: death-and-dying, mortality
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