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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
(3:39 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Two Points
- The passage I had to translate for my German exam was one of Nietzsche's assessments of the historical achievements of the Jews. I had to go to the Regenstein for the exam, and every time I got up to go to the bathroom or get a drink, I looked down at my work and thought, "Wow, I am am apparently scrawling out a hand-written tirade about the Jews." Luckily there was hardly anyone in there, and in any case, no one accused me of being a Nazi.
- How can I solve the following two problems in an elegant and ingenious manner?
- My subscription to the New Yorker ran out about a month ago, leading to a sharp decline in bathroom reading material.
- I feel obligated to complete this book whose prose approximates the effect that one would get if one were to take a bland, boosterish account of Nancy and replace literally every word with a synonym taken at random from the thesaurus.
Whatever course of action I ultimately take in this regard, I entertain the facile hope that the individual who ascribed his signature to this codex is not a habitual reader of The Weblog or inveterate self-Googler.
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