The Pompous Asses
Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover

The merits of the Oxfordian argument on the Shakespearean Authorship Question have won me over to the Earl’s side.

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Twitter has turned Foucault’s fear of the Panopticon into a self-imposed reality.

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Wittgenstein’s Tractus over-emphasizes the role of language, doesn’t it?

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The problem of modernism isn’t its aesthetics; it’s that only the erudite can fully appreciate it.

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Camus’ L’Étranger doesn’t have the same nuances in English as it does in the original.

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