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OpEd's avatar

This is so well done I wouldn’t be surprised to see a bunch of libs share it!

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Benjamin Morse's avatar

The voice I use does seem to elude some people. Too close to home, I guess!

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Ollie Parks's avatar

This piece is emblematic of the superb satire that used to appear in the pages of the New Yorker in its golden age. Now that most of publishing is enjoying its Mud Age, it would be likd pearls before swine.

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Benjamin Morse's avatar

Thank you so much. That means a ton 🙏

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Cavatina's avatar

Thank you for providing us with this rare opportunity to smile.

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Benjamin Morse's avatar

Thank you for reading it!

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Hippiesq's avatar

True satire requires commitment, and you were obviously committed to this insanity. I love it!

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Benjamin Morse's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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MOGDD's avatar

As one who works in a large academic library, this was all too real to read... We recently hired a librarian who, in her interview, spoke quite passionately of "citation justice"... (I should say "they recently hired". I preferred another, less woke, candidate, but was very much outnumbered)

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Benjamin Morse's avatar

It’s all too patronising and idiotic to contemplate. A secular form of fundamentalism dressed up as “educated”.

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Kate Foreman's avatar

Oh thank you for making me laugh out loud on a Monday morning! Genius 😂

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Benjamin Morse's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Jenny Poyer Ackerman's avatar

If I copy and paste this to use as my Christmas letter will you prosecute me on ‘own voice’ grounds? (I might do it regardless!)

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Benjamin Morse's avatar

I would consider it a collective act of citation justice, so copy and paste away.

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Meg's avatar

Thank you for these invaluable lists & reviews, which I may use as reference for end of year gift-giving (formerly known as Christmas) - as toxic works to avoid, of course! 😉 So grateful for you, dear Ben!

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Benjamin Morse's avatar

I might have had the holidays in mind. Gonna do a Thomas Sowell special for Advent. ‘Tis the season for The Vision of the Anointed (1995).

Thank you so much for always reading my nonsense!

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Meg's avatar

Never nonsense! Wit and wisdom - always welcomed!

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