lit-crit

Guy writes 10 bazillion sub-lit-crit words on rollercoasters, fails to mention Euler spirals and clothoids, where the beauty is, where maths guides and protects meat.

Freudianism was/is a pseudo-scientific cult that only lit-crit academics and $200/hr therapists still take seriously.

I've become decent at a wide-ranging set of skills - cooking, feminist lit-crit, Arabic drumming, odd things like that.

Also I once tried to read their papers and it reminded me of experiences where I've tried to read lit-crit.

It's grist to economics' lit-crit, and as such there are as many imagined 'economies' as there are critics, but none maps on to natural kinds.

This makes reading lit-crit about him infinitely more satisfying.

Second, that presumably explains why lit-crit is a laughingstock.

If you want to divine whole worlds of phantom meanings from innocuous phrases I'd recommend picking up PoMo lit-crit as a hobby, it's where such speculation belongs.

But the lit-crit gossip column (next to the worlds most terrible, fey, arrogant love-wanted columns) write-ups all say you wouldn't want to be within 2 metres of them if you can avoid it.

It's particularly obsessed with the relationship between colonization and translation in the Phillipines, is consistently funny, and teaches the reader how to read it (the book's quite twisty in presentation, in a postmodern lit-crit style).

"The apple is sex because the apple is always sex." I can't speak for lit-crit classes, but I'll just say that in Catholic theology, the fruit (an apple is not mentioned) is not about sex.

Fewer years of "writing/literature" could have weakened my writing skills, but I think that was primarily from my non-application due the incestuous lit-crit regurgitate-the-themes-the-teacher-says educational approach, and more of this certainly wouldn't have helped.