#hum110

[queuetish]

You hate sparknotes AND transcendentalism? Do you also hate frosting and love??

Annie 

[sadhoc]

folks from my school:

how do i tell a professor with whom i over all agree that one of the words she has been using is a slur?

[migolomaniac]

I've got my penguin pants on, I got this. 

[big-noise]

The Roman historian Tacitus tells us that Julius Caesar, along with the emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius, were all accomplished orators. But the art of rhetoric was not simply a weapon of emperors. In its belief that all citizens must be taught to speak well, it was closely bound up with ancient Greek democracy. For the Greeks, a free man was one who was to be persuaded by speech rather than, like slaves or foreigners, to be coerced by violence. Language was thus the supreme capacity which differentiated free, equal citizens from their human or non-human subordinates.

- Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem

[tekaihau]

HUM FINAL

IN FIFTEEN MINUTES

OH GOD YOU GUYS

[tekaihau]

I am with my family

And that, my friends, is a good goddamn feeling.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to study and read the Aeneid and stuff like that.

[tekaihau]

"He actually got himself decapitated. Way to go, Crassus."

Michael Faletra

[tekaihau]

"Daring to speak truth to power. Or if not quite truth to power, at least he spoke his own mind to power."

Michael Faletra