i found her in a dream looking for me

so i have a mug. that i got at gdwll. it has a good ole ‘merican flag on it and an image of the vn vets memorial. and it is my bathetic patriotism mug. i drink from it when i’m at school.

i recently came across the engraving “The Bathos” by William Hogarth from 1764. it is on display at the henry right now.

thanks wikipedia!

also, this week i am practicing the art of sublime sinking in academic prose.

we know what DFW would say.

“The truth is that most US academic prose is appalling – pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipidelian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jardon-riden, empty: resplendently dead.”

Wallace, David Foster. “Authority and American Usage” Consider the Lobster. New York: Back Bay Books, 2007. p 81.