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My body count? You mean the number of paragraphs between my introduction and my conclusion?

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(Gaslighting my reader) as I have argued consistently throughout this essay,

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You want me to pay attention to the details? The thing the devil is in?

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Can anyone recommend some basic intrusive thoughts for someone looking to get into anxiety?

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(Suddenly turning serious after riffing with you for 15 minutes) it's actually sick what you've been saying

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2pm: ok time for a productive afternoon 3pm: the whole day is over and life has no meaning

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I'm sorry but if you are unreliable, I do NOT think you should be a narrator. Conveying trustworthy information is LITERALLY your job. If you are tragically lacking in self-knowledge or blinded by your own unwitting biases, maybe you are not the right person to tell the story

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Can anyone recommend some new music? For context I mostly like music that is familiar and comforting and was meaningful to me at an earlier stage of my life

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UK rappers be like "I've got a posh flat and my bird is very comely, I own more motors than the marchioness of cholmondeley"

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How do I connect with gen z students? I speak their language. I call literary theorists "theorycels". Formalist arguments are formpilled and historicising is contextmaxxing. If I talk about genre, i say "it's giving". The more they say "Please stop" the more I know it's working

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It's nice but do you have any sans-seraph fonts?

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Do you think Kafka wrote Kafkaesque stories because of his last name or was it just a coincidence

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When someone asks if I know what ontology is

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How it feels to use an em dash

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Is there a doctor on the flight? Specifically a PhD in English literature? A passenger is angry about an evil character and we need someone to explain how fiction works

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Academics love to say "most famously" and then describe a fact that 9 people in the world are aware of

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2 years

Can anyone send me a pdf of the article I'm trying to write thanks

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This paper aims to make a major contribution to our understanding of a problem which I have invented

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Me: I would like to see a list of everyone who works in the English department please University website: our easy to use faculty directory is organised by shoe size and hobby

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Let's talk about why the tailoring in this scene from Eraserhead looks so bad. To begin with, there is a noticeable collar gap (1/n)

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Academics will write "interestingly" and then impart the driest piece of information you have ever heard in your life

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7 months

They should invent a profession where half the time you study texts in monastic solitude and half the time you talk animatedly to a room full of young people

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Oh no

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Me when I describe something that emerged in the nineteenth century as a relatively recent phenomenon

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(Trying to make a German feel welcome in my home) and this is what you might call the Lebensraum

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2 years

Oh, you don't read fiction? How do you expect to be constituted as a bourgeois subject whose deep interiority replaces hereditary rank as a form of class distinction?

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1 year

Asking my students to decide which Emily Dickinson line they would get as a tattoo and then holding a vote to choose the best one may not be the most pedagogically robust class exercise but I can recommend it as an icebreaker

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Ohhh my god are you using dashes to indicate dialogue instead of inverted commas? Should we call the Paris Review? Should we throw a party? Should we invite James Joyce

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Hey man I just cited your book. Really looking forward to reading it one day

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This is not funny. Academics only do this when they are extremely behind with their deadlines

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Thank you for your email. My conception of time is qualitative rather than quantitative and cannot be reduced to a spatialised series of instants. It is hard to say when I will respond

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Writers, and I cannot emphasise this enough, FINISH THE DRAFT. It is only when you have a complete draft that it can later be posthumously published by your friend and literary executor, possibly in direct contravention of your own express wishes

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You want me to cultivate an inner life? The thing that killed Hamlet?

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Hey man just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed opening your recent article in a new tab

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Me teaching: each paragraph should have a single main idea Me writing: my argument here is ninefold

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The period that I call "long December" provides a powerful explanatory lens through which to view both late November and early January

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Hey man several years ago I recommended a book to you and you said you would 'add it to the list'. Just wondering if you'd read it yet?

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Can anyone recommend some introductory shadows projected on the wall for someone new to being deceived about the ultimate nature of reality?

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The ideal candidate will have expertise in German idealism with a secondary research focus on anime and manga studies

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3 months

An epistolary novel consisting of ever longer and more lavish emails from a PhD student and ever terser and more laconic replies from their supervisor

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Not sure about this translation

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(at the Kazuo Ishiguro masterclass) unreliable narrators can be divided into three main categories: butler, clone, and robot

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The end of the bildungsroman when the protagonist affirms the values of bourgeois society

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Getting rejected by a journal: I have been found out Getting accepted by a journal: their standards are slipping

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3 years

Discursive footnote

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As a Wittgensteinian I find the concept of private likes epistemologically incoherent

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1 year

Interviewer: how do you explain this marbled page in your resumé? Me: that's where I playfully drew attention to the materiality of the medium

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1 year

Drafting an email so polite that it uses a tense heretofore unknown in English

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Ask consent for all sublimations of desire, yes, even sonnets. I just came up with this script that you're all welcome to borrow!

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I recommend that the author add a certain je ne sais quoi and resubmit

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Oh, you think you can dance like no one's watching?

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4 months

Academics who use labyrinths as final assessments, how long do you typically give students to "escape"?

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6 months

Roland Barthes you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your semiotics too different. Your narratology is too hedonic. They’ll kill you

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3 years

"Paranoid reading" refers to the suspicion that Google books knows exactly which pages you most need to access and deliberately omits them from the preview

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Hastily rebranding our intro to English course

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One of the great things about academia is that good scholarship is more important than fancy connections. I vividly remember the night my friend and mentor Jacques Derrida told me this

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The Bear is classified as a comedy because its characters are "low" or "common" folk who aren't suitable for tragic representation. Hope this helps

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The existence of a femininomenon implies the possibility of a femininomenology

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What are your favourite "ice-maker" exercises (strategies to re-establish social distance when classes have become too relaxed)?

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3 years

Nice genre you got there, be a shame if someone revealed its historically contingent emergence as an unstable hybrid of multiple pre-existing discourses

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And by "rizz", of course, I mean the process of "letteraturizzazione", or literaturisation, that befell the rhetorical tradition during the Hellenistic period

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Hearing that Joe Biden referred to the speaker of the poem using the author's name

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Some of these new Proust translations seem a little loose

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(At book club having only read the first sentence) I thought getting the flowers herself showed a lot of courage

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Who up mixing memory and desire

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Hello yes this is more of a narcissistic personality disorder than a question

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1 year

This is getting ridiculous

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9 months

Midway through a 100 page description of a party in Proust

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1 year

Overrated classic: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote - Trite juxtaposition of romance and reality - Cliché ridden - Product of its time Read instead: Pierre Menard, Don Quixote - Endlessly ambiguous - Philosophically bold - Thrillingly anachronistic

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@ArmandDAngour I'd probably just fail at them like everything else

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10 months

title/subtitle

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Wow thanks everyone! Btw many of your replies are generic and obvious and everyone thinks so

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HR really saying the quiet part out loud now

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Working on writing some sentences. Does anyone have any favourite examples of sentences they can recommend?

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Oh these? These are my emotional support nine books that I take with me on holiday

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Is he...you know...*mimes typing one sentence and taking a little break* an academic

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1 year

Me to my students: remember that 90% of writing is revision Me starting an essay: this sentence must shine with the brilliance of a thousand suns

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gaga’s slavic postwar serve

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what’s an example of a “necessary” sex scene

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Writing the abstract/writing the paper

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Writing is great because you can start with a bad idea but then the words you find to express it are also bad

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Such incredible erudition to trace the evolution of this drink through the ages

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A renovation show called Buildingsroman in which contestants compete to outgrow their youthful romantic impulses and construct a respectable bourgeois dwelling

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I am so tired of communicating clear boundaries to my deconstructionist friends only for them to limn them, drawing attention to the ambiguous slippage between inside and outside that all such attempts at containment conceal

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Every friend group has that one guy who is an individual rather than a type and whose consciousness is used to focalise the narrative

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Meet your students where they are. Lecture at the bus stop. Give feedback at the eras tour. Spring a pop quiz at a frozen yoghurt shop. Emerge from the ocean in full scuba gear clutching a list of supplementary readings

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The two stages of writing

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Sure, sex is great, but have you ever read a novel whose narrator has a more limited understanding of their own circumstances than what we, as readers, can infer?

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RIP J. Alfred Prufrock you would have loved flat whites

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This point may seem insignificant. However, I am too far into this essay to change direction now

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Many scholars have examined this tendency. No-one, however, has come up with the cool name for it that I am going to propose in this article

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Theorists as deodorants Roll-on Barthes That's all I have so far

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You there boy! What day is this?

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1 year

Honest opinion, does this attempt to increase enrolments come across as too blatant?

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Wow, ok, unfollowing now. I was a big fan of the Telemachus episode, did not know that later episodes mount a ludic assault on the very foundations of literary mimesis

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Novellas are so funny. It's like where's the rest

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