Thursday, May 1, 2008

Nordisms: or, funny things my advisor has said

do you see how our undergraduates look here? Are women supposed to dress that way? You don’t need millions, you just need a few floating around to feel that the world is going to hell in a handbag.

Surrealists, Dadaists, and they put on a big public show. “They’re the kind of I piss on jesus kind of people. They’re real provocative—what will offend people”

Charlie mayer story-humpty dumpty sat on a wall, then wwi happened, and you put it back together again, and you can’t do it through parliament.

“why this would be a subject of interest to anyone is beyond me”


soldiers descended into the shadow of the valley of foucaultian despair (that’s bad)

Masses. The masses have changed a lot. That sounds like an undergraduate statement. It has that sort of bluntness that one sometimes encounters: the industrial revolution happened, you know. Let me invite you to elaborate.