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23. I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
Herman Melville, Ch. 1 "Loomings" (1851)
Jun 30, 2023 • 
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Inform, protect, connect: facing the crisis in US higher education
My talk on Academic freedom at Leiden University last week
Apr 6 • 
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The voice of the sea is seductive
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
May 17, 2024 • 
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A weasel is wild. Who knows what he thinks?
Jan 20, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
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Because this alone is what a man who came away naked could carry out with him
Jan 13, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
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Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Jan 27, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
Nov 25, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.
Oct 27, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
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Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
Jan 12, 2024 • Jessie Morgan
I kept on creeping just the same
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
Mar 22, 2024 • 
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Dat truck dah is trash.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Mar 16, 2024 • 
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What would he do, or rather what ought he to do, in such a crisis of a lifetime?
Part II on "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chestnutt and "Talma Gordon" by Pauline E. Hopkins
Mar 8, 2024 • 
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No man is brave enough to face such a situation.
Part I on Pauline E. Hopkins, "Talma Gordon" (1900) with Charles Chestnutt, "The Wife of his Youth" (1898, 1899)
Mar 1, 2024 • 
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With silent lips.
Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883)
Feb 9, 2024 • 
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Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain.
Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890)
Jan 20, 2024 • 
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Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (1976)
Jan 12, 2024 • 
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