Oh my god, there are few things as painful as reading articles that start:
Fundamental to modern structuralist poetics is the principle that, before applying structuralist methods to the study of the large forms of great literature (if indeed this turns out to be possible at all given our present level of knowledge), these methods should be worked
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Aahahah, that's exactly it! The pretension drips off it.
I do, I do! ^_^ I go home twice a year, and a third time to the US for the conference. The Dean House is so much fun. We did it for the first time last year, and I didn't expect Dad to say, "Yes! Let's do it again!" when I brought it up today.
It did, m'dear! I'm so sorry, I'm overdue with a deadline which is about to crash into a second deadline, which is why the radio silence. I'm trying to get the first thing (chapter draft) done in the next couple days, which will give me some quick breathing space in which to answer you. *crosses fingers* Sorry! Am I holding you up?
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You can just imagine them talking with their noses so firmly in the air that all you see are those nose hairs. The text is written by sentient nose hairs.
AWESOMESAUCE! 8D I hope you have fun again, ahhhh.
No, it really is okay. I'm doing absolutely nothing with it except hording up my primary texts (i.e. fanfics) because I've been rushing my five essays for school. I wrote something like 6.5k words during the past 2 days so I'm going to laze (in any manner that a workaholic laze anyway) tomorrow, so you're definitely not holding me up any. I mean it when I said for you to take your time 8D I was just worried that gmail is hiccupping again.
Edit: wtf, keyboard.
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