January 16th, 2012
I don’t read Ta-Nehisi Coates enough to understand whether or not this is satirical:
I finished up Middlemarch two days ago, and had a good debate about it on Twitter.
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Don’t forget, JVL, that to see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.
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It gets worse, if you keep reading the post. Which you shouldn’t. But if you were to do so, you would find highly questionable grammar and lazy writing. Like this: “Ultimately I found the book shockingly ambitious and ultimately disappointing.” Indeed. And then this: ” The modernism evinced here, and the sense of inevitable progress, is an obvious target. And yet so much of this calls back to both Malcolm and Douglass’s resolve to educate himself, to that old African-American sense that there is covert and belligerent about the life of an autodidact, that to be ignorant is to do the work of one’s enemies.”
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Galley Wife January 17, 2012 at 7:19 am
I’m going to go weep now.