Good Company On Grub Street
Posted by avicena on 12/29/07 • Categorized as Edukacja
At first I was worried when I discovered this:
But then I learned I’m in good company. Some pretty cool people slum at the junior high reading level, including Acephalous, Dean Dad, and Book Slut
What can you do? I suppose I could start freaking out the meter by throwing down some big words and phrases like poststructuralism, phenomenology, and objective idealism—or big names like Michel
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