wow. I'm not at mhc anymore
I am doing some of my readings for Library 200 - what amounts to a history of (mostly American) libraries, and I keep running across all kinds of phrases that are driving me batty.
The latest is: "A decade or so later Marc Antony had his turn with Cleopatra."
o_O
I just have nothing to add to that.
Lionel Casson, however, apparently feels the need to add that "the Egyptian queen was...a fascinating woman" who was actually learned and shit. awww... how cute. Clearly, she is not fascinating in the same way that all the men are though, since unlike Julius Cesear and Marc Antony, she just sat there being all cute and learned and shit...and waiting patiently for Marc to have his turn with her of course...and didn't do anything else worth remarking upon other than simply being cute and learned and shit.
no, being a woman and all, simply being interested in science makes her a fascinating creature to be sure. Smurfette need not do anything else to stand out other than be female and human -er, a smurf - at the same time.
Other things learned tonight: Dewey's willingness to fight for woman's right to attend college was just a cover-up for wanting to get into our pa... er... skirts. It's not at all possible that he was a complicated, privileged, self absorbed idealist who held contradictory beliefs and acted in contradictory ways.
and lest anyone think I'm making too much of a few select readings, according to my professor libraries came about because "Man decided that it was important to keep a record of his culture..."
I'm sorry, what century am I in again?