There was a fair bit of poetry sprinkled through X-Files, if I recall. I've wondered sometimes how much of it was at Duchovny's suggestion. According to Wikipedia, he got a BA in English at Princeton, a Master's at Yale where he studied with Harold Bloom, had some poems receive honorable mention in a college prize from the Academy of American Poets, and was working on a Ph.D. when he went off to pursue acting. Always liked thinking of that when Mulder waxed poetic or they talked about his studious days at Oxford.
I seem to remember more poetry in the X-Files too, but I can't locate any other specific moments. Can you? (As an underemployed English major watching the shows in the 90s, I knew Duchovney was an English major too...)
There was a fair bit of poetry sprinkled through X-Files, if I recall. I've wondered sometimes how much of it was at Duchovny's suggestion. According to Wikipedia, he got a BA in English at Princeton, a Master's at Yale where he studied with Harold Bloom, had some poems receive honorable mention in a college prize from the Academy of American Poets, and was working on a Ph.D. when he went off to pursue acting. Always liked thinking of that when Mulder waxed poetic or they talked about his studious days at Oxford.
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember more poetry in the X-Files too, but I can't locate any other specific moments. Can you? (As an underemployed English major watching the shows in the 90s, I knew Duchovney was an English major too...)
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