tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507307540604269398.post1127823176496629495..comments2019-06-01T10:43:54.927-04:00Comments on The Scriblerus Memoirs: Scriblerus Detecting AgencyScriblerushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02979369403613893141noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507307540604269398.post-7010329762474274492007-09-03T16:56:00.000-04:002007-09-03T16:56:00.000-04:00I'm not yet prepared to give up, but then I haven'...I'm not yet prepared to give up, but then I haven't properly started. I'm sure the trick is to embrace ignorance rather than hide it, but try telling that to the legion of bloodthirsty semiparasitic buzzkillers who set you up for the sting as soon as they smell sweat. <BR/><BR/>As to the long 18th getting longer--damn right. Starts no later than 1649 and ends no earlier than 1832. Huzzah!Scriblerushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02979369403613893141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507307540604269398.post-46552098295026893952007-07-06T16:58:00.000-04:002007-07-06T16:58:00.000-04:00"I have felt utterly stupid now for a year."Upon l...<I>"I have felt utterly stupid now for a year."</I><BR/><BR/>Upon leaving gradual school, I resigned myself, like Socrates, to a lifetime of ignorance. Then I rediscovered the real world, and observed empirically that 99% of the population is dumb, vicious, and utterly incompetent. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps it was having Howard Weinbrot on my committee that did me in . . . but no, he's actually a gem of human being, despite my disagreement with just about every scholarly point he's ever made.<BR/><BR/>I stumbled upon your blog while searching for a copy of Kerby-Miller's edition of <I>Scriblerus</I>. Though you've impertinently delayed my bookish acquisitiveness (for which I absolve and forgive you), I'm happy to see that the glorious c-18 is still inspiring others as it did me, in the not-so-distant past.<BR/><BR/><B>Long live the long 18th century!</B><BR/><BR/>Is it me, or does the long 18th just keep getting longer with each generation of scholars? Not that I really care. Yet I must admit, part of me always will.<BR/><BR/>(I'm planning to have that part surgically removed, lest I inadvertently re-enroll in grad school to finish my dissertation.)Slanty-Eyed Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666904703931902631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507307540604269398.post-50244896428015588352007-05-08T18:35:00.000-04:002007-05-08T18:35:00.000-04:00How do you tweak the genre you've chosen to positi...<I>How do you tweak the genre you've chosen to position yourself at the top of the temporal hierarchy?</I><BR/><BR/>by using another genre, durrrr. <BR/><BR/>This post was brought to you by the PERIODICALS ARE GREAT ranters, Manhattan division. <BR/><BR/>Nuff said.Marinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16387553977006099896noreply@blogger.com