Is it an art installation or is it a prank? Frankly, it’s hard to tell. But it did make me laugh. (And don’t miss Peeps at the Library, linked in the comments.) Via Crooked Timber, where they’re having a bit of seasonal-candy fun.
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Browsing through The Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. L. C. Martin (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), I noticed that at the back there’s a "Select Glossary of Uncommon Words and Meanings," presumably in lieu of footnotes to the poems themselves. Among the highlights: Bestrutted: Swollen.Bruckel’d: Grimy.Candidate: In a white sheet.Cup-shot: Drunk.Dew-locks: Dewy hair.Ding-thrift: Spendthrift.Fasting-Spittle: Saliva […]
I’m no longer panicking about the necessity of finding a new job by next September, primarily thanks to friends here in Collegeville and elsewhere. R., over the phone, gave me a job-search pep talk and urged me to come to New York, where she is; H. said encouraging things about how the change is likely […]
Since ther’s no helpe, Come let us kisse and part,Nay, I have done: You get no more of Me,And I am glad, yea glad with all my heartThat thus so cleanly, I my Selfe can free.Shake hands for ever, Cancell all our Vowes,And when we meet at any time againe,Be it not seene in either […]
First I start rereading Emma (which is my favorite among Jane Austen’s novels), then the Invisible Adjunct goes on a Jane Austen posting spree, and now this (via About Last Night): I believe you belong in Pride and Prejudice; a world of satire and true love. A world where everything is crystal clear to the […]
I was having a wretched Sunday, full of ungraded papers and free-floating anxiety. (Have you ever really, really wanted something — say, a fellowship — and been consumed with terror that you won’t get it, and also with terror that if you think about it too much you’ll jinx it? And have you ever been […]
Prompted by a comment by Susan on this post about academic writing (among other things) at Frogs and Ravens, I’ve been thinking about intellectual communities. Specifically, I’ve been trying to envision what "my ideal intellectual community … would look like," to borrow Susan’s terms. The following is a provisional attempt at defining my own ideal […]
Irascible Professor guest blogger and high school teacher Elise Vogel lets fly at the culture of parent complaint in public school education: Nothing in my teacher education courses had prepared me to deal with parents who would object that I assign homework, or who would take their objections not just to me, but to the […]
I conducted my first real, in-person informational interview yesterday. It was immensely encouraging to hear someone who has what you think is quite an interesting job, and who clearly enjoys said job, say "As a matter of fact, I started off more or less where you are now." I think I could get to like […]