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“I’ve never thought about the readings like this before.”
“What, in terms of close reading?”
“I just mean—I don’t know, taking into account when they were written, and the author’s social context, and such.”

how did this guy make it this far into grad school at cambridge

“Edward Said asks: “Besides, what does it mean to be perfectly, in a completely equal way, bilingual?” Said rightly points out that the technical or linguistic analyses of bilingualism simply cannot deal with the aspect of actually living in, as opposed to simply “knowing” two languages from two different worlds or cultural contexts…[]” !!!!