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Jan. 14th, 2011 01:41 pmDear Paper
You really didn't have to spread yourself over so much floor. I was only trying to pick you up so that I could finish today's editing. I was not trying to insult or injure you.
I have determined a suitable punishment to such an over-reaction. When I have entered all my changes, I shall not put you in my back-up cabinet (where all good papers go to rest, in case the computer wipes itself without warning). Instead I shall rip you into note-sized shreds and use you to scribble on.
If you had behaved yourself, you could have had a dignified demise.
Gillian
PS to everyone - I shall do a proper post later today. I have a book to talk about! Aliette de Bodard's latest.
PPS I keep wanting to write a post about the blood libel. Someone tried to accuse me of it once, you see. By 'tried' I mean that it was in class and I was teaching food history. Power is everything. That class got a complete run-down on kashruth, on the effect of the fate of the Temple on sacrifices in Judaism and on Jewish food history, on anti-Semitism in England from the eleventh century, on the use of food habits by the Inquisition to identify relapsed Jews for the purposes of burning, and on how I've always wondered if people who purvey such stories are secretly harbouring a wish to do these things themselves. The person who accused me of ingesting babies' blood (she thought it was a regular ingredient in matzah) really didn't know what hit her. One of the other students thought my disquisition was fascinating, but pointed out that reading the ingredients on a matzah pack would have done the trick. That second student has become a friend.
PPPS Somehow, this post got garbled. Hopefully it is now fixed.
You really didn't have to spread yourself over so much floor. I was only trying to pick you up so that I could finish today's editing. I was not trying to insult or injure you.
I have determined a suitable punishment to such an over-reaction. When I have entered all my changes, I shall not put you in my back-up cabinet (where all good papers go to rest, in case the computer wipes itself without warning). Instead I shall rip you into note-sized shreds and use you to scribble on.
If you had behaved yourself, you could have had a dignified demise.
Gillian
PS to everyone - I shall do a proper post later today. I have a book to talk about! Aliette de Bodard's latest.
PPS I keep wanting to write a post about the blood libel. Someone tried to accuse me of it once, you see. By 'tried' I mean that it was in class and I was teaching food history. Power is everything. That class got a complete run-down on kashruth, on the effect of the fate of the Temple on sacrifices in Judaism and on Jewish food history, on anti-Semitism in England from the eleventh century, on the use of food habits by the Inquisition to identify relapsed Jews for the purposes of burning, and on how I've always wondered if people who purvey such stories are secretly harbouring a wish to do these things themselves. The person who accused me of ingesting babies' blood (she thought it was a regular ingredient in matzah) really didn't know what hit her. One of the other students thought my disquisition was fascinating, but pointed out that reading the ingredients on a matzah pack would have done the trick. That second student has become a friend.
PPPS Somehow, this post got garbled. Hopefully it is now fixed.