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Dwight E. Knuth
Dwight is an author that writes about life and the emotions experienced. His telling of his life story is not always a happy story but he tries to sprinkle even the sad moments with a little humor ...показать большеDwight is an author that writes about life and the emotions experienced. His telling of his life story is not always a happy story but he tries to sprinkle even the sad moments with a little humor or irony and he is not above sarcasm.
As the title suggests, he is a bit of a non-conformist or as his wife called him, “A Rebel Without A Clue”. As a child when his Mother was at her wits end with him she would say, “I hope you live long enough to have children and that they turn out exactly like you”. She also told him not to ever worry about being kidnapped because they would bring him back in a short time. Even his Dr. at the Mayo Clinic told him he would live long enough to make everyone he loved miserable.
He never got in any serious trouble but he liked to skate around the edge of it and occasionally his skates slipped and he fell into it.
He was a golden glove boxer in high school without much success. His strategy as a boxer was to bleed all over his opponent. At the age of 16, his friend and he hitchhiked half way across the US and on the return trip hopped a freight train and learned how to be a successful bum. At the age of 17 he joined the ND Army National Guard and continued his boxing career. In the Army he gave up the strategy of bleeding on his boxing opponent and won the NDANG championship. The local constable was so fond of him, rather than jail him he tried to render him unconscious with his Billy club.
After high school he joined the Navy, pursued a career as a computer programmer, married, worked for a major US Corp. as a computer programmer, system analyst and Mgr. of IT. He retired at 58, beat cancer, cared for his wife as she died of cancer and lives alone in the icebox of the nation, International Falls, MNпоказать меньше