John Attridge

She's a 10 but she sometimes doesn't historicise

Is it ethical to doxx someone if they are walking too slowly in front of you

are novels written by their narrators or by the person who wrote the book? it is impossible to say and no one really knows

Do I read for "fun"? Does a surgeon do heart transplants for fun? Does an engineer build rockets for fun? There is nothing "fun" about determining the objective aesthetic value of literary texts

While this text has received considerable critical attention, no one has previously clocked that the author is standing on business

Not to brag but by the age of 26 I had watched citizen kane

Sorry about how I've been acting lately, my human desire for meaning has come into conflict with the reality of an indifferent universe

Hey man nice pleasure dome. Is it stately?

I prefer it if my students don't read the primary texts. It allows us to focus on what really matters, which is literary theory

The only way out is through. - Franz Kafka, 1912

Wow ok unfollowing now. Loved his refusal of servitude in heaven, did not know he was responsible for the fall of man

(adverbially) adverbs are good actually

I'm not being a reply guy, I'm enacting the "I, thou" structure of authentic human communication

This reminds me of the time I was at an REM concert and it was me in the spotlight

Psychoanalysts be like

Editors must stop virtue signalling by performatively noticing my bad arguments and factual errors

(Detective inspector pores over my laptop) same MO, sergeant. Draining the enjoyment from literary texts by reducing them to their sociological determinants. (picks up a copy of Middlemarch from my desk and sniffs it) it's still warm. He can't be far

RIP Henry James, you would have loved posting about what the American mind cannot comprehend

You should receive a day of personal leave if the source you were relying on doesn't say what you thought it did