cmbnugent.bsky.social
Scholar of medieval Chinese literary and manuscript culture (mostly Dunhuang), occasional potter, avid bad tennis player.
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the jolt of lightning i felt realizing China has independently invented Louisiana from first principles
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Yes, this is correct.
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Wait, “The Second Coming” isn’t a love poem? I’ve totally been misreading it!
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The first part of this is definitely not true, though the second is.
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I told them, in the strongest of words, to follow a Nike ad slogan.
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@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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You’re an academic. Wrinkled clothes are basically the uniform!
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This is the correct answer for the reasons you note. I had a brief subtitling gig in Beijing in the early 90s and translated this whole film into Chinese. It was basically impossible because of all the in-jokes. I was amazed at how willing he was to mock himself at the peak of his career!
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I’m genuinely confused about what this means. Someone wrote this as graffiti at my college last week.
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I've watched that video too many times. A true classic!
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I kind of like 萬物 as "the Bunch of Stuff" (which, I've just discovered, begins to sound vaguely dirty if you say it over and over).
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Nobody lives there anymore; it's too crowded.
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With IVs in their arms!
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Let's not forget this endless snooze-fest:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E...
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Ha! I was one of those Williams faculty! I just looked back at my notes and we worked together on this project at Lawrence University about 15 years ago! Time flies! I'm teaching a new tutorial next year!
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Great to hear! Over the years it really has come to represent the ideal of a liberal arts education and may be more important now than ever!
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My home SLAC will be doing exactly this!
today.williams.edu/magazine/on-...
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Don’t.
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Quite possibly the latter, alas.
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I’m so happy I cancelled my WaPo subscription and subscribed to Wired. Such great reporting!
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Yes, but there are at most 4 or 5 people in the country who don’t completely detest Vance. Yes, they’re really rich, but there are some limits still to what that can do.
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First thing I thought of was that scene.
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Turns out the stove was…Elon.
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(this is for a big new expansion they're working on called "All Under Heaven," and if any Chinese history folks wish to disabuse them of some incorrect assumptions about Tang governance, it's early enough in the process that you still can)
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The average rec player has NO IDEA how good a decent Div. III college tennis player is.
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This is true even if you were recruited for a good Div III program without scholarships.
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Since when was the US government an accreditation agency for colleges and universities? It's not, right?