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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
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Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology 🐳
Medford, MA Katılım Kasım 2015
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I disagree with Timothee Chalamet about opera (crowd cheers), because all art is essentially bad (crowd boos), in the Culture Industry sense! (crowd cheers) except for one medium, which encompasses all previous forms (crowd nodding expectantly), “gaming” (booing intensifies)
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Well this was insulting to Mary Shelley, the audience, and somehow also managed to drag Herman Melville into it.
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not since Moby Dick bodily boomed his bulk into the pure element of air has a creature of such whiteness and heft locomoted fatly
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates
speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.
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@BostonMassUSA No problem, Boston. I’m sorry that we are both about to die in a snowicane.
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Yes some issues with his reading, but it is fun how much “seaport town’s teacher sermonizes in hushed commanding tone about Moby-Dick as an epic in which a commercial fisherman is made the tragic embodiment of new democratic energy” is like a scene out of Moby-Dick.
RJ5000@RJ5000
I clipped this from Wiseman’s ‘Belfast, Maine’ to share with a friend. A high school teacher on Herman Melville. youtu.be/_EGGHJT7obo?si…
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@BostonMassUSA I mean, I am perpetually Maine-pilled, extremely midcoast maxxing, etc. — but also Wiseman just passed away on the 16th.
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@proffwolff The politically charged, cosmic humor in The Confidence Man might appear to some of those kids if that teacher had them read the edition annotated by H Bruce Franklin.
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@BasicallyT49781 Sad that I keep having to teach mammal truthers that a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.
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@proffwolff It's not about fishing, it's about whaling 💔 you can't fish something that isn't a fish. A whale is a mammal
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ummmm Moby-Dick *is* a story about fishing and in fact about *how* fishing *is itself* quite a bit darker and weirder than you might think..and fairly Leftist
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Ok, they got this part right. But the line should quickly return to peak thanks to the Melville revival of the 1920s.
Nadia@womwithnoo
i cant stop laughing at these stupid prageru graphs. its like a 5 year old made them
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Nate Wolff retweetledi
If you'd like to support laid off journalists at the Post, some of my colleagues are started a go fund me gofundme.com/f/standing-tog…
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This is so stupid and infuriating. Jacob is an incredible editor and Book World is a treasure.
Jacob Brogan@Jacob_Brogan
The Washington Post is eliminating many sections. Book World, my section, is among them.
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@Jacob_Brogan This sucks and I'm so sorry to hear it. You're an incredible editor! It was a real honor and highlight to work with you even briefly.
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The Washington Post is eliminating many sections. Book World, my section, is among them.
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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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link to the review here, algorithmic throttling be damned journals.openedition.org/transatlantica…
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My review of Arielle Zibrak's WRITING AGAINST REFORM is up at Transatlantica (revue le plus chic 🇫🇷)! An honor to think w/ a book this smart, which taught me a lot & pushed me to articulate productive—I hope!— disagreements about critique, sentimentality, aesthetics & politics:
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@LeoVirgo369 @moorehn [guy who wants more people to like his Edith Wharton jokes] we must solve our nation's literacy crisis
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@proffwolff @moorehn This should’ve had better engagement. I guess they’re not making the kids read Ethan Frome anymore.
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DATING TIP: there is no possible way to ride a sled down a snowy hill with your mistress in a way that will not hit a tree leaving you trapped in a grim invalid polycule with her and your wife in an isolated mill town around the turn of the twentieth century. Avoid at all costs.
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