tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post112870562521959111..comments2023-10-10T07:12:55.445-05:00Comments on City of Tiny Lights: What Ever Would Derrida Say?Will Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695153396800974213noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post-1129184263061593642005-10-13T01:17:00.000-05:002005-10-13T01:17:00.000-05:00You sir are a bad ass. The best blog post I have ...You sir are a bad ass. The best blog post I have ever read<BR/><BR/>GregAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post-1129145462666534922005-10-12T14:31:00.000-05:002005-10-12T14:31:00.000-05:00Hey, Greg. Thanks for looking in.Why did I move h...Hey, Greg. Thanks for looking in.<BR/><BR/>Why did I move here to do this? Well, the particular faculty member that I wanted to work with (JSD) was here and he is the sort of professor that I am used to. His works are what initally interested me in modern Irish social history; that and the dearth of decent studies of localities and the loosened grasp of ardent nationalists on the study of Irish history that has happened in the last fifteen-twenty years.<BR/><BR/>On a practical level, they were the only ones that said yes. I guess Princeton, Notre Dame and Boston College thought I was a bastard. Princeton hurt especially; their application fee was $85.00. You're welcome.<BR/><BR/>Leave it to the likes of Derrida to be unfriendly to a child. I guess that this "cookie" she wanted was merely a construct.Will Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01695153396800974213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post-1129097432853427842005-10-12T01:10:00.000-05:002005-10-12T01:10:00.000-05:00so very true Will. The question, though, begs to ...so very true Will. The question, though, begs to be asked, why in the world did you choose to the great state university of the state of Wisconsin? Here is where many old post-modernists go to die. To be sure, it is not as bad in the history department as in Sociology, English (shiver, shiver), or Anthropology<BR/><BR/>By the way, Derrida was a complete jacka$$. I know someone who met him when she was a little kid and he was a complete jerk to her despite the fact that he was staying at her parent's house. How can you be a jerk to a seven year old kid? Oh, yea, by being an snotty "intellectual" who thinks there are only about a dozen people in the world worth having a conversation with.<BR/><BR/>Greg ShealyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com