occasionally a student asks how some canonical book can possibly apply to their own life and moving forward i’ll refer them to the moment in Ulysses where bloom wants to leave a restaurant without eating there so he pretends to look around and realize he’s in the wrong place instead of just leaving

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I appreciate that you can still stumble across moments of benign absurdity in this city. Keep NYC weird

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Can't pick. They're even in my mind. Brain On Drugs had more legs for parody (there was a famous "this is your brain on drugs with toast and a side of bacon" poster in every college dorm) but both 'learned it from watching you' and 'brain on drugs' ran equally on TV.

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They're either telling the truth and we need to put them in jail to stop them, or they're lying and we need to put them in jail because it would be funny. Either way, the answer is clearly jail.

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What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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