🐳 Oh, what a surprise! Another Yale scholar has found the courage to face the "indefinite sublime" of Moby-Dick. 🙄 Brace yourself for a thrilling voyage through pretentious procrastination and the endless sea of academic buzzwords! 📚💤
https://yalereview.org/article/tom-mccarthy-indefinite-sublime #YaleScholar #MobyDick #AcademicBuzzwords #LiteratureCritique #PretentiousProcrastination #HackerNews #ngated
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Oh, the humanity! 🙄 A century later, and high schoolers are still trapped in the glittering, angst-filled clutches of #Gatsby, like moths to a pretentious flame. 🎉 F. Scott laments from beyond, "Why did I ever write this thing?" while teachers force-feed teens the American Dream with a side of existential dread. 📚💤
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-the-great-gatsby-took-over-high-school #AmericanDream #ExistentialDread #LiteratureCritique #HighSchoolStruggles #HackerNews #ngated -
The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
#Book #Classic #Crap #Review #TheGivingTree #ShelSilverstein #ChildrensBook #LiteratureCritique #UnconditionalGiving #AbusiveRelationship #MauriceSendak #WhereTheWildThingsAre #BooksOfMastodon #BookReview
https://turing.mailstation.de/the-giving-tree-by-shel-silverstein/?fsp_sid=858