Posted by Amanda Marcotte October 10, 2007 in Uncategorized, Books, Class issues, Liberalism
Our own professor of Dangeral Studies, Michael Bérubé, will be in Austin tomorrow night at 6PM to give a talk called “Somebody Killed Something, That’s Clear at Any Rate: Jabberwocky and the Western Canon.” For a general idea on what it will cover, check out his post at Crooked Timber.
2006-2008 Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Series
October 11, 2007
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Avaya Auditorium, ACES building
Be there or be forced to explain how to “wang chung”.
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I hope the talk isn’t before Everclear margaritas.
That is a brilliant post. As anything that combines The Canon and LOLcats has to be.
Comments over there were closed, or I would have voiced my opinion that *hardly one* makes it to Book VI of the Aeneid. Give me Homer any day.
Damn. Wish I could go.
Don’t just stand there in uffish thought–go! And don’t forget your vorpal sword . . .
Dang, I wish I’d read Roxanne’s comment before they served up all those Everclear margaritas. Still, the part of the lecture in which I suddenly burst into song seemed to go well, I think.
Mister Bérubé, might you ever be coaxed out to my $40K-a-year-book-club of a college, d’you think? we have everclear AND margaritas.
Depends, kidlacan. Teaching schedule and spousal health permitting, of course. . . .