Gerhard’s Reviews > The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain > Status Update
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...an insulting categorization, complained the professors of what had then been called the Old Knowledge, which made their discipline appear quaint and useless, affecting their student numbers, always lower than those in the so-called Department of the New Knowledge, and limited their access to space and funding.
— Jan 02, 2026 01:04PM
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“And you have a PhD,” Marjorie said. “I swear, they’ll give anybody a degree these days.”
— Jan 06, 2026 12:45PM
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It is the mesh. Entanglement. Vibration, brightness, scent. It is what binds.
— Jan 06, 2026 12:29PM
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...all the meetings, the committees, the running from place to place, the concern, the late nights, the frantic messages flying back and forth, and for what, to change the “Department of the Old Knowledge” to the “Department of the Older Knowledge”...
— Jan 06, 2026 11:51AM
Gerhard
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The boy was late to Dr. Raymond’s class, and Dr. Raymond said, “Look who decided to join us.” He bowed deeply to the boy. “Welcome, O King.” The class snickered. They had been learning about the principles of democracy.
— Jan 06, 2026 11:38AM
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Can the University be a place of both training and transformation?
— Jan 06, 2026 11:06AM
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“You’ll be a man of iron one day,” he said. The boy felt the guard’s anklet glinting affably.
— Jan 06, 2026 10:54AM
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But in order to establish that this new research was in fact research, she must connect it with careful threads to the traditional archives, she must display a thorough grasp of established knowledge, and on pain of disgrace she must not mispronounce any venerable name.
— Jan 02, 2026 02:16PM

