A Little Reminder Of What You Hate Most About Academic Life

Imagine having to read this stuff. 

Just try to hack your way out of those tristes tropics of hermeneutic discourse, just try to take a machete to the mumbo-jumbo that beats an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, boom-lay boom-lay boom-lay BOOM.

As for “plurivocity” — well, we don’t need to consult an on-line dictionary for that kind of talk. We don’t need Derrida. We have Dickens: “He do the police in different voices.”

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  1. In the days when I studied English at University (some decades ago now) I was always struck how vacuous the Merican articles were. Sort of describing how to breathe. I don’t know if our British one’s have caught up with the Americans.

  2. Hey, watch that apostrophe. And never ever criticize Americans to me. All the best people are Americans.

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