Is today. I get that Writers' Almanac email (I know, it's from Garrison Keillor...I just can't help liking him), and they said this about Hughes:
"He went to Columbia University for a year but then he decided that he wanted to learn from the world rather than books. He quit college, hopped a boat to Africa and as soon as the boat left New York Harbor he threw all his college books overboard."
It's all very transgressive, but I can't believe Hughes didn't think for a SECOND about all the nice sea creatures that would choke to death on An Essay Concerning Human Understanding or whatever. There goes another hero.
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