cimorene

man cannot live by smörgås alone. sandwich, yes (well, that and water). smörgås, no. at least, not for very long. this is an important distinction to make.

so that time my essay effort was more properly expended, which is to say about ten percent of it was spent on condensing the thing. ambiguously gay coffehouse skinhead lecturer can't truly expect an equal balance of lecture and literature when the lecture and literature have so little to do with one another, anyway. it's really a pity i don't more enjoy giving historical overviews, because i'd be revelling in the first half of this course. i think my own critical thinking is welcome and he's probably going to deduct points for not having more personal thoughts, but ... what space is there for personal reflection in a dangerously strongly condensed historical overview?

"[two decades in one paragraph]. and during this time, much of the research i haven't got space to enumerate for you in order to make this comment relevant was conducted by women, but very little of this female research occupies a reference position within the ~~fandom~~ field. that's either because It Just Makes Sense that men have more insight about themselves than women do even though they don't have more insight about any other subject... or because in this field as in every other field we can think of, work by men gets a disproportionate weight of influence. the lecturer seems to lean towards the latter explanation. i suggest this is yet another example of men having less insight than women. a particularly lovely ironic one, in fact."

~~for the first time it occurs to me that it's probably a good thing i don't compose essays as if i were writing a journal entry.~~