Me: “Heya, deadbeat neighbor! Long time! How’s tricks?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Beg pardon?” Me: “– Oh, shit, that’s right. I moved a while back, didn’t I? Which means you wouldn’t have the slightest idea what I’m talking about.” Deadbeat neighbor New-ish neighbor: “No, I wouldn’t.” New-ish neighbor: ” — And say, is that my newspaper you’ve got in your hand…?”
March 9, 2010
March 9, 2010
Jokers’ Wild
From “How to Deconstruct Anything — My Postmodern Adventure”: Looking at the field of contemporary literary criticism as a whole also yields some valuable insights. It is a cautionary lesson about the consequences of allowing a branch of academia that has been entrusted with the study of important problems to become isolated and inbred. The Pseudo Politically Correct term that I would use to describe the mind set of postmodernism