Do I see in my students' eyes the menacing gleam of the anthropophage?
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In all of Shakespeare's comedies, death is the unacknowledged center whose gravitational pull is slowed only by the centripetal force of locutionary mirth. All of Shakespeare's most enduring comic characters are but one: a desperately playful Dasein.
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The greatest single lesson learned from the collapse of Enron: arithmetic is now as subjective as morality. Thus we've achieved the pleroma of postmodernity.
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