If I turned in a bunch of bad math but ALSO wrote “I don’t like trans people” on it, could I claim persecution for failing?

So I guess thanks for helping me ace that test, Mr. Stoppard.

Stoppard always feels clever in a way that so so many writers mimic, but everyone else copies the surface. the Stoppard magic is that the cleverness is impossibly thin, basically transparent, and there’s this unending well of feeling on the other side

Rosencrantz & Guildernstern, Aradia, After Magritte, 15-minute Hamlet, Invention of Love, even friggin Brazil...

Some of the most delightful English prose of the last several decades came from Stoppard. What a talent. RIP

It's easy for a modern person to not realize how much guns have changed since the 1970s because of how they tend to be depicted in fiction. All of this is to say: this sounds like an interesting book and I'm excited to check it out!

Thus you have Mary Kaldor's "new war;" it's no longer state actors as the primaries but diversified networks of states, insurgents, organized crime, and terrorist cells. The goal is no longer territorial but political control; the battle for "hearts and minds," where cheap weapons are lifeblood.

One of my novice brothers once pointed out that Haugen stuff always sounds like sea shanties and now I can never un-hear it.

(Put on a pirate voice and do "Gather Us In" and it's right there.)

Inshallah 🙏🏻

Sarah I am seeing this on Sunday night and am very excited to read your take after I do so!!

(my province likes to put a lot of crucial information on Yammer, alas, so I am forced to (viva!) engage with it on a regular basis.)

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