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“Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.”
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Dan Breen
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Dan Breen
@dgsbreen
Medieval and early modern literature and history, friends, family, Bears, Cubs, "culture." Occasionally grumpy, but mostly nice.
Katılım Şubat 2010
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@jemelehill Happy for that guy—he played like the worst ten minutes of his life then sent everyone home with that. Good for that dude.
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@jon_greenberg “No One Asked For This” could be the country’s motto right now.
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No one is asking for this. It will make a good thing worse. So of course, it would be fitting that the NCAA wants to expand the tournament.
Our decline era continues:
nytimes.com/athletic/72405…
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Early Birthday celebration with my family❤️🎂❤️🎂
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Previous scholars have argued that it is so over. In this paper, however, I posit that we are so back
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@jasonwblakely Petrarch quotes this passage in his letter about climbing Mont Ventoux and uses it as the basis for an Augustine-esque conversion experience. Substantively and structurally inspiring!
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“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Peter Sarris@peter_sarris
I have been re-reading Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ for the first time in c. 30 years. The first time I hated him: good on male friendship; interesting on Manichaeism, but otherwise a conceited monster with no real care for anyone other than ‘mummy’. On re-reading, I hate him more.
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Pope Fiction
The Biblical backlash to Don's Medieval musings has the president looking like someone turned his Diet Coke into Pepsi. And sending the gimp to Budapest to eat quarter pounders was a political bust. Maybe they should have sent the wolf.
by Maureen Dowd
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@ItsAndyRyan I'm generally a descriptivist rather than a prescriptivist, but the misuse of "literally" & "disinterested" does annoy me. "Disinterested" especially. We already have "uninterested", & we need a word to mean "disinterested", but now it's being ruined.
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For language pedantry, my rule is whether a useful meaning is being lost. It's handy to have a term than means 'not figurative', so I bemoan 'literally' being applied to metaphors. But I ask defenders of 'decimate' – how often does anyone want to say 'one in ten men were killed'?
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@JonCallan @JoyceCarolOates Hi Jon! Great to hear from you--it has been a pleasure following your career since you graduated.
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@dgsbreen @JoyceCarolOates Are you the Dan Breen who taught Shakespeare at Ithaca College?
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anyone who says "academia went far left" has spent little time at a university department meeting or senate.
in fact, anyone who says "academia" isn't on any university payroll.
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🎉 Congrats to Viktor Orbán on his new fellowship at the Harvard IOP! 🥳
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You want me to go explore the world & meet people instead of staying home with my books? The thing that killed Don Quixote?
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One of the best ways not to be a racist lil' bitch is to stop being this racist lil' bitch's lil' bitch and whatnot.
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@sm_osment GOLD. And, I mean, probably sort of true and so also terrifying.
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it's 2036, college is $140k/year and all English courses are taught by an AI trained solely on Ocean Vuong interviews
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I saw this couple walking towards me and asked them if they could get me some help, I woke up in the hospital a week later with my family and doctors looking at me, I had suffered heart failure, God is good and I’m here to testify 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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On this day 2 years ago I was on my way home from work and stopped by my local Walmart, as I was leaving the store I was unable to breathe..I made it about a block before I could not breathe at all…
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This is nonsense! History shows us that female leaders are just as likely, if not more likely, to start wars as their male counterparts.
This probably sounded really smart in his head.
Chuck D@MrChuckD
Testosterone is like a nuclear balance. When aimed productively it can help build society , when driven by ego negatively it leads to the male MENstrual cycle ….. WAR.
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