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Heather Cox Richardson today
Heather Cox Richardson today
In the latest installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson writes about what would likely happen in a second Trump term. Short answer: a dictatorship.
#democracy#autocracy
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Heather Cox Richardson today
Jigs and gigs
Jigs and gigs
Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC this afternoon: “The gig is up.”
#words
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Jigs and gigs
Pocket notebook sighting
Pocket notebook sighting
From L’Innocent (dir. Louis Garrel, 2022). If there’s a criminal plan afoot, there’s gotta be a notebook.
#film#notebooks
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Pocket notebook sighting
"Their own interpretation of happiness”
"Their own interpretation of happiness”
Lou Sullivan (1951–1991), transman and activist, writing as a teenager: “I wanna look like what I am but don’t know what someone like me looks like. I mean, when people look at me I want them to think — there’s one of those people that reasons, that is a philosopher, that has their own interpretation of happiness. That’s what I am.”
#happiness
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"Their own interpretation of happiness”
Homer in four translations
Homer in four translations
In The New York Times, Emily Wilson, who has now translated both the Iliad and the Odyssey, writes about four translations of a speech by Hector from Iliad 6.
#Homer#Iliad#translation
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Homer in four translations
Revising again
Revising again
One more addition to How to e-mail a professor, now that I can get through to ChatGPT: Don’t ask AI to write an e-mail for you. At least not if you want your e-mail to sound like the work of a human being.
#academia#e-mail#technology#revision#AI
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Revising again
Joyeux anniversaire, M. Proust
Joyeux anniversaire, M. Proust
“My seconds in duels can tell you whether I behave with the weakness of an effeminate man.”
#Proust
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Joyeux anniversaire, M. Proust
Revising
Revising
I took a look at How to e-mail a professor the other night and noticed three sentences that needed revision.
#academia#e-mail#revision
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Revising
Recently updated
Recently updated
Adding a working link to Balzac’s hair-raising essay “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee.”
#Balzac#coffee
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Recently updated
Clarence Thomas and Horatio Alger
Clarence Thomas and Horatio Alger
The Alger success story is, really, a story of patronage. One might even call it a story of affirmative action, practiced not by institutions but by individuals.
#culture
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Clarence Thomas and Horatio Alger
Wind the clock
Wind the clock
Here’s a letter from E.B. White to, it would seem, a one-off correspondent in despair — despair over the state of the world, I would guess.
#letters#EBWhite
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Wind the clock
With Clint Eastwood
With Clint Eastwood
I went to the register to buy three sloes and found the cashier beside himself. “Clint Eastwood is in the store,” he said.
#dreams
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With Clint Eastwood