Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Mayhewianism #3

"I came of age intellectually during the apogee of Derrida in the American academy, so I know this theory better than you. If you try this argument with me I will crush you."

(A "mayhewianism" is an expression that is characteristic of Jonathan Mayhew's exemplary scholarly persona. Ideally, it is something actually written by Prof. Mayhew.)

3 comments:

  1. Leaving open the possibility that someone else could come up with a Mayhewianism?

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  2. Yes. Sort of like all those pithy remarks that are attributed to Oscar Wilde whether he actually said them or not. There is a sense in which the attribution isn't always altogether wrong.

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  3. I liked that one, too! Definitely very Mayhewesque.

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