Princeton didn’t consider Anne Carson worthy of a recommendation for tenure, and she couldn’t continue teaching at McGill after its Department of Classics was shut down.
Now, everyone wants to claim her as their own …
“How much they err,
that think every one which has been at Virginia
understands or knows what Virginia is.”
—Capt. John Smith
“I’m from Virginia, where ain’t shit to do but cook
Pack it up, sell it triple price, fuck the books”
—Pusha T
I’m certain that others have noticed the popular “two epigraph” trend, in which the first is something esoteric, perhaps from poetry, philosophy, or poetry, and the second is current and quippy. I’m trying to figure out how it emerged, and what the underlying motivations are.
Maryanne Wolf writes movingly about how reading to your baby is a fundamental part of developing the “reading circuit”, because even before the baby understands what the book means it creates a link between reading and being loved
It's called "managed decline" dude. It's so sick. Ok, so get this. There's no national project or anything to believe in but the elites will impotently gesture at previous periods of national progress without understanding the context for that period of prosperity. It rocks.