Gerard Manley Hopkins day in which I try to explain instress and haecceity

Anyone who deploys this meme for Braddon will auto-pass the module - I don’t make the pedagogical rules; this is something they taught us all in grad school

Do you ever read William James whilst making a huge vat of gravy

Tennyson didn’t annoy all his friends including his dead soulmate for this nonsense

Why am psychologically and physically incapable of getting into Bluesky can someone help me is this a will thing do I need to pray to Mary Ann Evans

George Henry Lewes meeting Bad Bunny in my curriculum today

“It was, I confess, beyond my hope to meet with this rare combination of elements both solid and attractive, adapted to supply aid in graver labors and to cast a charm over vacant hours.” <Nice catch, Edward! Would you like me to add this as a section of the dedication of Key to All Mythologies?>

It’s finally happened - the son asked me this morning why the Christmas story has two kings

Wordsworth and Coleridge would’ve tried to launch their own app, but it would be an incredibly embarrassing failure as Wordsworth would never learn how to code and Coleridge would become convinced that a Chatbot was the voice of God.

Teaching Richard Marsh’s The Beetle

Thaler's post (click it for graph showing striking decreases in science spending) immediately under yet another repost of this fantastic letter to London Times. And I'd just like to say: can we PLEASE have a Democratic candidate who knows we need a massive reinvestment in US arts & humanities too?

It's my favorite time of year! The Thanksgiving Asynchronous Project on the triangulation of nation building/romance narrative/monster theory! Some highlights:

i think about this fanon quote at least two or three times a week

Me trying to grade today

Has anyone done this yet

Does Mrs Thornton show up on her own sons Reddit thread and dox him of course she does

Sometimes I think about my grandfather in his white socks on the beach listening to Wagner on a cassette deck and I think there was no hope for whatever I am

Excited for my slide tomorrow

Teaching the Marlborough Mills kitchen section in English and the Indian and Irish famines in Medical Humanities during SNAP cutoffs is ~uncanny~

Class response to “The Windhover” was to theorize that the minions (from the 2010 franchise) are the most pure instantiation of Hopkins’ inscape/instress relationship

I’m 3 algorithms in a trenchcoat give me VC money