When you are applying to a doctoral programme, that is actually the last thing they want. They do not want diverse interests. They want one person who will do one extraordinarily narrow thing. And i was not telegraphing that. I think they saw through me and realized, oh, this, this person might be a liability. When i see the question, translate this from this passage of beowulf from the old english -  I thought, oh, oh, yas. That's not my area of expertise now, is it?