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this was also Ahab’s pitch for whaling
Neil Renic@NC_Renic
Academia offers no material rewards of any kind. But if you’re especially lucky, you can cultivate a mutual professional hatred that transcends time and space.
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Nate Wolff
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Nate Wolff
@proffwolff
Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology 🐳
Medford, MA Katılım Kasım 2015
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Herman Melville: ADDICTED TO WIKIPEDIA
Ryan disappears into a puff of smoke@simple_as_grass
Where would the great writers of the past be if they lived today? James Joyce: ADDICTED TO INTERNET PORN Fyodor Dostoevsky: ADDICTED TO INTERNET PORN Charles Bukowski: ADDICTED TO INTERNET PORN Whitman: chillin in da woods :D Ernest Hemingway: ADDICTED TO INTERNET PORN
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@proffwolff Phylogenetically whales (like all mammals, and indeed all tetrapods) are fish.
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Look, Middlemarch is a great novel. It complexly mediates class conflict, commodification of all life, emerging ideological structures of Victorian capitalism. I just personally think it’s more impressive when a novel does that through a story about a guy who hates a weird fish.
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@stevebikes Whales are fish. 1818 Maurice v. Judd. I don't make the rules.
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@Ozymetsdias a thing with fins that lives in the ocean? Think about how you sound right now.
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@AnnMile71721158 free yourself from the tyranny of Linnaean taxonomy
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@proffwolff A whale is not a fish.Just thought I’d add that to the conversation.🤣
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@KodaScott1 That a whale is a fish is whole thing in Moby-Dick, which is something that people who have read it know.
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@proffwolff If you ploughed through Moby Dick & still think a whale is a fish, then Middlemarch is clearly superior.
I emerged from that free of taxonomic confusion.
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@JoyceCarolOates @PhilKlay Ok, I’ve come around to a compromise position.
Nate Wolff@proffwolff
j/k — I prefer to think Middlemarch and Moby-Dick are not competing rather they are a loving power couple and we all call them middledick
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@proffwolff @PhilKlay No, that’s just silly. No one “wins”
since there isn’t any race.
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@JoyceCarolOates @PhilKlay Totally agree. But just between us Moby-Dick wins right?
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@proffwolff @PhilKlay Great writers should not be pitted against one another. Each is unique & valuable. The irony is that reading any works of sustained prose over hundreds of pages may be becoming a lost art.
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j/k — I prefer to think Middlemarch and Moby-Dick are not competing rather they are a loving power couple and we all call them middledick
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I'm sorry, no. "Transparency" is simply not an indefiniteness that shadows forth the heartless voids & immensities of the universe, stabbing us from behind with the thought of annihilation; a dumb blankness, full of meaning, from which we shrink.
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@HenriDeMarsay Yes exactly this is all by design. LLMs are totally sycophantic so only humans can be visibly annoyed by the wrong title and the quiz’s weird punctuation 🧠
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@proffwolff Extra credit for students who write in "The" before the (otherwise incorrect) novella title.
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Yup. My pedagogy has been AI-proof for years 💪
Paul Schofield@pschofie79
It’s amazing how everyone is lamenting the way AI makes it impossible to assign take-home essays anymore when you can just give students in-class exams with true/false questions.
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"but professor doesn't the text profoundly destabilize the linguistic and epistemological grounds of interp..." let me stop you right there. YES OR NO
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@dennismhogan Hate like ye say? aye lad tis the strongest kind of like
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@proffwolff I just want you to know my like was a hate like
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Canvas is down ye say? Aye lad hearken to me and I'll tell thee a time when a man might say canvas was down! When the leviathan booms his bulk upon ye an thy splintered masts surrender their sails to the foaming merciless drink! then lad, ye might say with some authority that can
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as they always say, "hate a fish, and you'll hate for a lifetime. Teach a child to hate a fish, and they'll see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it"
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