James A. W. Heffernan

Professor of English Emeritus, Dartmouth ( Latest book: Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II (Bloomsbury Academic 2022)

[James A. W. Heffernan @jamesheff39]

@Alex__Schiffer @washingtonpost On January 14, 1990, when my parents were celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary my older sister Peg proudly handed him a congratulatory card signed by George and Barbara Bush. On reading it, this 96 year old man asked. “Will someone please tell me who these people are?”

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@Alex__Schiffer
On their 65th wedding anniversary in January 1990. my parents got a card signed by George and Barbara, When my sisters proudly presented the card to my 96 year old father, he said, “Will someone please tell me who these people are?”

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NEWS FLASH: The End of Trump is Nigh! And will be even nighet by 2050.

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NEWS FLASH: Since Donald Trump’s right hand has just been stricken with Dupuytrens contracture, his lawyers have asked Federal Judge Aileen Cannon to appoint a special masturbator.

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@page88 Pollyannas all!

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@jsf As a warm fan of your previous writing on art l, I very much admired your piece on art and war—partly because I’ve just written a book on the literature ignited by the imminence and outbreak of World War II. For more on this, see my website https://t.co/dRatpNpELs

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@RonFilipkowski “I’d rather get Trump than all the other thugs in the country.” —NCH

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@exitthelemming Here’s the definitive answer to what a fusty old Royal Academician said about one of John Constable’s landscapes when it was proposed for exhibition: “Take that nasty green thing away.”

[James A. W. Heffernan @jamesheff39]

@page88 @billmckibben Great news!

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@page88 Wow! Citation heaven!

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@waltshaub @page88 Here's my contribution to this discussion of prosody:
Higgledy-piggledy
Dimeter dactyls, the
Damnedest of meters, di-
sects what I write.

Polysyllabically
How I would love here
to throw in hexameters
just out of spite.

[James A. W. Heffernan @jamesheff39]

@page88 Absolutely right!

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Though we survived the insurrection, it has shown us what can happen to democracy whenever those in power spout “alternative facts” or play by “very different rules.” See https://t.co/hDASo0uG7l

[James A. W. Heffernan @jamesheff39]

You will thereby spare US any more hysteria. Yours respectfully, Atticus Mack

[James A. W. Heffernan @jamesheff39]

Skylar Mack, a lovely 18-year-old girl from Atlanta now languishing in a Cayman Islands jail cell for merely breaking their quarantine rules, is now desperately appealing to a panel of judges for release. So on her behalf I have just drafted the following letter to the panel.

[James A. W. Heffernan @jamesheff39]

Her grandmother tells me that the weeks she has already spent in jail down there have left her hysterical. But if you conclude that she needs several more weeks or even months or years in jail to calm down, feel free to keep her indefinitely.