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Until lunchtime, I am reading articles about and by Hayden White. This is dissertation stuff. I have a vain hope of finishing this project, one day. It's time for me to introduce the fiction of my PhD to the theory of it. So far the introduction has gone well -- history is polite but cautious, fiction is cheeky and never-mind but shows an inclination to be friends.

This introduction has side effects in real life. Emails that should have arrived last week start entering my inbox; I get phonecalls from strange women asking for Metatech (metahistory's cousin?).

My amusement for the morning comes from discovering something I once knew but had forgotten. Hayden White was a Medievalist, initially. How could I have forgotten this? And what is it about Medieval Studies that turns scholars into rabid discussers of discourse and analysers of narrative?