Given that I am now in a graduate program (studying for a doctorate in analytic philosophy) one might imagine that Forsythe the atrophied scholar is based on a real person. This is not the case. In fact I drew this character long before I entered my graduate program. Indeed, when I drew this character, I had no interest at all in academic studies and was quite certain I would never set foot in a classroom again. A few years later I read a book called "The World As Will and Representation" by the great Arthur Schopenhauer and everything changed. Now I am deep in graduate study. In fact, I've never worked harder in my life. I am mostly interested in questions of free will and identity. I hope one day to write a dissertation comparing the relative merits of the views of David Hume and Immanuel Kant. I say "I hope one day" because, as I mentioned before, one just never knows. In any case, I have not met any "atrophied" scholars. Most of the scholars I have met are quite healthy and bunny-less.
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