The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

A dissertation in American studies at Pyongyang University, 1970

Well, maybe not.

I particularly like the repeated, rather clinical sounding references to Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, and Thoreau as "four Northern white male writers."

As if the thing were being written at the Marxist-Feminist University of Tralfamador, a thousand years hence, by someone very remote, indeed, from being Northern, white, male, or even a writer.

Tralfamadorans looked rather like bathroom plungers, as I recall.

Anyway, we are a long way from Harold Bloom.

Kim, EunHyoung

Does the word "duckspeak" come to mind?

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