Dec 222008
In universities, it’s no longer possible to discuss a book of the type formerly known as a work of literature as if all the people in the room might have an equal and similar interest in it. Nowadays books are divided like carcases into choice cuts and distributed to hungry scholars. (The genitals are particularly prized and fought over.) The rule for who gets what, however, is the inverse of what happens in the wilderness: the weakest and most disadvantaged species get the lion’s share.
And now according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, we have age studies. Apparently people who study it hate being asked how old they are.