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My PhD thesis just passed with no corrections!!
I'm seldom overcome, but today I might just be.
Bernard T. Joy
@bernardtjoy
PhD from @UofGlasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction.
Joined October 2010
- How did we all become so sickeningly fake and disingenuous?
- Thousands of people in the UK die by suicide every year. None of them are granted vigils attended by the great and the good and featured across national media. This is because no one in this country or anywhere actually cares about suicide but rather only to the degree to which
- We are not a serious country.Large crowds have turned out in central London at a vigil for the former Cambridge University professor Jason Arday - who was found dead last week. Almost 100,000 people have now signed a petition drawn up by the Good Law project calling for an immediate public inquiry. They
- You never have to agree with what another person says at all. However, it is a profound wickedness to listen to someone speak, to know they are thinking soundly, making sense, and speaking in good faith, and to refuse to acknowledge those facts to them and others explicitly.
