Status Updates From Aping Mankind (Routledge Cl...

Omg the academic rage and take down in the first chapter is amazing. “I won’t say much about this here - I shall demolish it in the appropriate place - …” lol

Lol, Raymond is fuming over neuro-lit-crit: "This (...) has caused me considerable sorrow, as two of its leading advocates are critics I have counted as personal friends, as comrades in the 1990s in the struggle against the massive pyramid of bullshit called “literary theory”, and as excellent critics in their own right."

Polymath/erudite thinks centipedes are insects: "As far as I know, centipedes do not have the concept “centipede”; nor do they relate that concept to a higher- order concept such as “insect”; they do not compare themselves to other centipedes or calibrate centipedes against other insects." 😤