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[tarimanveri]

So, the good news is that I've actually started planning my comprehensive week-in-Brittany update! The bad news is that it's currently in un-elaborated list form and lurking as a private entry until I finish it. That won't be tonight, because in an effort to get up at a reasonable hour tomorrow morning (something I have continuously failed at

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[rose71]

"Save the words" sounds awesome! I just checked it out (thanks to you), but can't decide which word to adopt. I look forward to your use of "historiaster," which does indeed sound like a word with many uses. (I'm familiar with "poetaster," along the same lines, but the historian variant is new to me!)

[tarimanveri]

It does! I am thinking even now about how to use "historiaster." I will have to be a little bit careful, since it seems quite mean, but I'm tempted to privately insert it into some of the historiography I'm hoping to write in the next few months...

"Poetaster" may be even better, though!

[curtana]

Philosophaster is also good :)

[ineptshieldmaid]

Oooh, I will use 'historiaster'! I will use it GOOD.

[tarimanveri]

I can think of several candidates.

Unrelatedly (OR IS IT?), I have a book signed out as of this afternoon that among other historiographical things, seems to have an article about how Georges Duby's word choices, particularly in his work on the early medieval economy, have determined the paradigms of French-language historians since him. I am interested to see the French write about French historians...

[tarimanveri]

Ooh, yay! I feel like there's something I'm supposed to attend on Friday, so I'll have to check, but my reading and transcription are both very portable. Hopefully it will work out for me to come for at least part of the day!