Marlow’s Listener

The new devotion to complexity gives carte blanche to even the most trivial scholarly enterprise.

If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with a serving of Dr. Frankfurt’s finest.

All this issue began in the late forties when, at Levi-Strauss’s request,
Andre Weil wrote an appendix (pp 278-285) to Claude’s famous book ‘Les
structures elementaires de la parente’”

Its main appeal to students, he argued, is simply that the young like to read about the young, prefer short books, and ones without too many references to other books. Salinger, he says, “flatters [their] very ignorance and moral shallowness”

(Via Good Magazine:.)

“All the theory that fits”

Eventually, all history is reduced to a term paper

causis honoris: “Mike Tyson’s 1989 doctorate in humane letters from Central State University, in Ohio. Kermit the Frog’s doctorate of amphibious letters, in 1996, from Southhampton College at Long Island University”

 
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