The Tweetable Doctorate

[steepholm]

A Facebook friend has taken this widely-shared post in which science PhDs were invited to give "dumbed-down" versions of their PhD theses, and suggested that humanities people might try something similar. A good idea, and I thought people here might enjoy it too. Here's mine:

"Sometimes Spenser makes his ideas act like people, sometimes he makes his people act like ideas. It's not always easy to tell the difference."

Feel free to add yours in the comments.

Comments

[lilliburlero]

I think mine is: 'Difficult as it may be to believe, Irish poets sometimes write in a symbolic fashion about other things than the woeful but all-absorbing condition of being Irish.'

[steepholm]

That's a pretty revolutionary proposition.

[lilliburlero]

I know, right? If I hadn't been more interested in writing about what they were interested in writing about instead, I could be an Academic Celebrity whose papers were picketed by the Aubane Historical Society for Unsoundness on the National Question. Well, maybe.

[nixwilliams]

"Trans people have different opinions about the films they watch and what those films mean. Hey, at least I bothered talking to actual trans people to confirm this."

[steepholm]

Excellent! (The Wicker Man and Drowning by Numbers ftw, btw.)