Today he gave a narrative

I couldn't figure out what point you were trying to make until I looked at her blog. The quote sounds like a parody of intellectualism.

"He wears bow-ties, tells us we're wrong, criticizes us when we stay stupid things, and generally emits an air of effortless superiority. It's absolutely awesome. Finally, someone who values knowledge, who doesn't believe it's just a useless jumble of unrelated baubles. He's brilliant, and it's obvious that he's brilliant because he knows so much."

He may well be all that -- and more -- but I have always wondered about the legions of students over the years who fall in love with their professors and professors who fall in with adoring students. This sheds some light on the matter.

And even if this is the case, at least there seems to be good reason to fall in love ;-)

Quoting from the Vulgate on GNXP? Don't let Dawkins catch you at it.

Valuable to whom?