I got your latest poseur alert, right here. Here is Matt Continetti, who apparently drew the short straw at the Weekly Standard and was given the job of rehabilitating Sarah Palin’s image, writing in the WaPo. This is a gem:
Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss.
Why, yes. I bet the majority of the folks who buy Sarah Palin’s book immediately think of Hans Robert Jauss.
Joe Max
He’s been waiting since his LitCrit 101 class in college to compare something to Hans Robert Jauss.
The Moar You Know
I thought of Hitler. He was German. Does that count?
Gus
That has to be the most unintentionally funny thing I’ve ever read.
Will
It takes a lot of balls to write something that stupid. I’m proud of him.
tom
According to Wikipedia, Jauss “was a German academic, notable for his work in reception theory and medieval and modern French literature.” So, yeah, who wouldn’t think of Hans Robert Jauss?
stinkwrinkle
Not me! I thought of the epistemology of Popper as related to proton pump inhibition and the upper bounds on the energy of the proposed Higgs boson. And kittens playing with feathers. Also.
MattF
So… what is this Postmodern-Palin business? Silly me, I assumed it was a joke.
null pointer exception
Did Hans Robert Jauss quit his job midway through to co-author a book?
Hunter Gathers
Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I immediately thought of wiping my ass with it.
SpotWeld
I think is a subtle way of stating his mind essential shut down and we just began free-associating in some sort of fuge state as he attempted to deal with the peek into the “Mind of Sara Palin”
ppcli
Kind of a coincidence – when I read bits of Going Rogue online I thought of the Austrian literary critic Brüno Gehard.
The Moar You Know
OK, I went and read it. That’s a writer who knows how to write a puff piece for a paycheck. Take notes, class.
dmsilev
Oooh, a contest. Take that sentence fragment and graft on a new ending:
…starbursts
…the wave/particle duality of light
…the role of Christianity in the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
…small unit tactics during the Okinawa campaign
More realistically,
…selling it before the used price collapses
…sticking a pencil through my eye.
…how lucky we were that she lost
…where the nearest cache of alcohol is located
-dms
Bernie
Continetti has the rare ability to be both ignorant and pretension at the same time.
Tom Hilton
Like a lot of people, as soon as I read Matthew Continetti’s column I thought of Tristan Tzara.
Bernie
Sorry, I meant ignorant and pretentious
Ryan
I just threw up in my mouth, a little bit.
bemused
Continetti was on Joy Behar show last night along with Randi Rhodes & Kinki Friedman discussing Palin’s comicbook. Now there’s an interesting assortment of personalities for a talk show panel.
asiangrrlMN
@dmsilev: Best laugh so far. I will add.
…pouring a gallon of bleach into my eyes so I wouldn’t have to read another word.
…Tina Fey doing the audio-book version.
…Twinkies. I haven’t had one in a long time. I wonder if they are as good as I remember?
…the end of the war. Because, it’s surely coming soon.
…Mike Connell’s What’s it Gonna Be? (Not really. I just wanted to link to it).
Cat Lady
@dmsilev:
For. The. Win.
Redshirt
Now I know how the Pilgrims felt…
Foxhunter
Sullivan has been riding the Continetti pony for some time now.
See HERE.
asiangrrlMN
@asiangrrlMN: Oh, and video definitely NSFW.
PeakVT
Shorter Confetti: Dammit, somebody already used the rorschach test concept.
Just Some Fuckhead
Oh man, I can hardly wait for the three hours of wall-to-wall Palin coverage on cable tonight, with one hour so awesome it will be repeated.
Michael D.
As soon as I got my copy of “Going Rogue” I immediately thought of the $28 it just cost me.
Oh, and via Sullivan, have a look…
Columbus Go Home!
All kinda awesome!
slag
Why in the hell am I still reading about Sarah Palin?
Morbo
Speaking of that place and its former denizens:
NYT crash and burn watch continues in earnest.
Leelee for Obama
@Hunter Gathers: My thought was similar and yet, not. My reaction was that that was gonna be some really expensive toilet paper, and I’d stick with the Scottissue.
There was a teeny, tiny window of time where Incontinetti was interesting in a real way. It quickly morphed into “interesting” like looking at bugs under a magnifying glass and wondering where they get their ideas and energy.
Zifnab
@dmsilev:
… the guy they’ve currently got staring out over the Bering strait, keeping an eye on Russia.
… all those god damn CO2 eating trees she put a Moose-killer’s bullet through to make these All-American paperback novels. Drill, baby, drill!
… mom’s apple pie. Mmmm, pie.
bemused
I don’t know how anyone could get past the first paragraph of a book that has this sentence, “I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small town America with rugged splashes of the last frontier”.
I thought she had a ghost writer. Either the ghost writer is a lousy writer or Sarah came up with that dreck & insisted it be in the book.
soonergrunt
Behold, the simplest example of Poe’s Law there is.
kommrade reproductive vigor
You know who else thought of German literary critics? Hitler.
Christ. Thanks for the college flashback Cole.
dmsilev
@bemused: That sounds like it’s real authentic Sarah. No normal human could produce prose that bad.
-dms
jibeaux
@asiangrrlMN:
Got excited there for a minute, since Mike Connell of the ’90s local-tom-me indie band the Connells is an acquaintance of mine. But that’s Mike O’Connell and Mike Connell wouldn’t do anything NSFW without blushing uncontrollably throughout. Will watch it later!
jibeaux
Dammit. Time to learn to read, I guess.
Will
…how this is good news for John McCain.
beltane
Is this the new Burkean Bells? I know Sarah Palin is the bestest read human being ever, but I didn’t know she was an authority on obscure German literary critics. Doesn’t this make her an elitist?
ChrisS
Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I immediately thought of … how forcibly moved me away from Calderon de la Barca’s idea that “the only sin of a human being, is to have been born on the first place”.
Evinfuilt
Me personally, the first thought that came to mind was the kiddie place mat at Denney’s and a box of crayons.
asiangrrlMN
@Morbo: New Balloon Juice rule. If you are going to link to Douthat, you MUST include proper warning or I will be forced to hunt you down and make you watch all the games from the Lions’ season–last season!
@jibeaux: Heh. Yeah. It’s very funny, but so NSFW.
Aaron
I don’t think Hans Robert Jauss would have first thought of Hans Robert Jauss if he had gotten his copy of Going Rogue while looking in a mirror.
Dexter Morgan
Why didn’t Continetti think of an American literary critic? Is he one of those Old Europe-loving America haters?
oklahomo
My first thought was L. Ron Hubbard. A millennium from now, serious theologians will do battle debating the meaning of Dear Sarah’s fragmentary works. Those who refuse to attribute it to divine revelation — with starbursts! — will be derided as shrill and very unserious. Also.
Hunter Gathers
@Leelee for Obama: I’ll keep it as backup, in case the Great TP Shortage Caused by Obama ever comes to fruition.
New Yorker
“A lot of people”? Yes, I’m sure the Palin cult, many of whom can’t read and most of whom probably couldn’t find Germany on the map, had the exact same thoughts.
Like a lot of people, as soon as the Patriots went for it on 4th and 2, I thought of Dostoevsky’s parable of the Grand Inquisitor.
Like a lot of people, as soon as Jon and Kate got separated, I thought of the arguments for and against the Toba Catastrophe theory on human populations.
Like a lot of people, as soon as Nickelback released “Darkhorse”, I thought of John Stuart Mill’s influence on the British Liberal party in the late 19th century.
georgia pig
You probably lifted that quote out of context. I bet it actually was something like:
“Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss fellating an elk in Yellowstone National Park.”
That is a much better analogy.
jibeaux
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Brick Oven Bill
Sarah would go caribou on Goldman Sachs.
The odds of Lloyd Blankfein demanding that Obama bow to him has risen to 79% following the China trip. How tall is Lloyd?
Geithner allowed Goldman’s competitor, Lehman Brothers, to fail the week that McCain pulled ahead in the polls, the economy tanked, Obama was installed, and the Treasury turned over to a Goldman lobbyist, oh, and Tim.
Go Sarah go.
ts
I’m glad they got a guy with a financial stake in Palin’s continued viability to review her memoir.
Who knew that the Post‘s book section was almost as corrupt as the editorial page?
asiangrrlMN
@New Yorker: You are making me swoon with your erudite comments!
jibeaux
Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I immediately thought “Hell, I knew I drank a lot last night but I assumed I would hit an alcoholic coma before I would buy this POS…”
Julia Grey
I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small town America with rugged splashes of the last frontier.
Cripers. It’s like a winning entry in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
Zifnab
@Brick Oven Bill:
You know, on this I think you may actually be right. Sarah Palin would approach Goldman Sachs like herd of caribou, gently hiding in the weeds outside the office building and aiming her gun at the fattest and slowest moving of the herd.
Then, after a carefully placed shot, she would pursue her wounded prey on snow mobile across miles of New York roadway, until he grew tired and began to lag. Finally, Sarah would deliver the killing blow, and skin the beast while gutting and quartering the meat for dinner.
This wouldn’t really do much to address the economy, however.
New Yorker
Drugs are bad, mmm’kay?
matoko_chan
Reihan is also trying to rehab Our Sarah.
I wonder why.
jibeaux
Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I immediately thought “God, I know I’m unworthy but just give me one more chance. I’ll tithe, I’ll go to church every Sunday, I’ll give to widows and orphans. Just don’t make me read this. Please.
All right, screw you, then. I’ve got pills.”
Xenos
Is this not the same Matthew Continetti who published a Regnery book just last Thursday: ‘The Persecution of Sarah Palin“?
Seems odd that he and his editors do not mention this, either in the spirit of full disclosure or to try to sell some copies of what appears to be a fascinating and entirely non-whingey book.
Xenos
woops – not Regnary but Sentinel, which appears to be a mutant offspring of Penguin.
jibeaux
Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I immediately thought “Okay, dearest wingnut brother, it is ON. Enjoy your forty subscriptions to Vibe and being on the Working Assets mailing list that they sell to every lefty group in the hemisphere.”
MysticalChick
Have to share this found at Democratic Underground:
(mystically vomits into trash can)
Citizen_X
I hate to be so literal, but if I got a copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I would immediately think, “What the fuck is this piece of shit doing in my mailbox?”
kommrade reproductive vigor
@New Yorker: Please, stop. I’m dying over here. Also.
Svensker
@Foxhunter:
Know what you meant, but did ya have to use that image?
Patrick
I would have thought immediately of Theodor Seuss Geisel, a/k/a Dr. Seuss.
matoko_chan
I know why.
The can-opener of epiphany just opened up my skull.
Palin’s handlers were not ambushed by her incompetance….they knew she was incompetant and unfit for the high office all along.
And they didnt care.
Where they screwed up was they overestimated her malleabilty.
She wont play Galatea to their Pygmalion.
She went rogue.
Now they can’t bear to give up on their shiny tasp that so energizes the base. They keep trying to rehabilitate her.
Whores.
Conservatives don’t give a shit about anything but power.
They would happily hand over the nuke launch codes to someone who believes in using Israel and the Jews as staked goats to bring down teh Rapture and who has such poor impulse control that she quit a governorship because she didnt want Krauthammer and Goldberg tellin’ her what to do.
Col. Klink
Mulder: Mr. Simpson, we want you to recreate your every move the night you saw the alien.
Homer: The evening began at the gentlemen’s club, where we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.
Scully: Mr. Simpson, it’s a felony to lie to the FBI.
Homer: We were sitting in Barney’s car eating packets of mustard. Happy?
AkaDad
I’d read Going Rouge, but I’m not into non-science fiction.
JHF
.
ICH habe gerade daran gedacht! Wiese kommt es Ihen so merkwürdig vor???
JHF
Um… “wieso.” Dankeschön.
matoko_chan
AkaDad….
that would be….anti-science fiction.
John
I don’t get why he purposely made the sentence so much stupider than it needed to be. Why the “Like a lot of people?” Also, why use “as soon as” and “immediately”? Is anybody actually editing things at the Washington Post?
Why not just
That’s still pretentious but not overtly ridiculous.
maya
… that colonoscopy I’m over due for.
… calling my dealer. I’m going to
need a fat one to get through this.
… what is John McCain reading?
… pardoning our Thanksgiving turkey.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@John: Possible answers:
A. He’s paid by the word.
B. A bunch of his wanktastic friends all had the same thought.
C. He knows the Palindrones will accept any statement that is quantified in some vague way. For example: Some people say Obama is the next Hitler, ergo he must be the next Hitler.
D. If he use the first person singular the Palindrones might think he is a sissified elitist and give him noogies.
rh
@Michael D.:
Ha, I sorta know the guy lurking behind the speaker with the camera. I just msged him him asking if he was in on it from the start.
catclub
Jay Newton Small has a Swampland posting that suggests
The Thrilla from Wasilla is very similar to GWBush, so watch out, although what she presently lacks is a Karl Rove.
I would argue that she is similar in work ethic but her crucial lack is that she is not a hereditary member of the ruling class,
as Bush is, so her chances of jumping the line are distinctly smaller than Bush’s were.
If it turns out I am wrong, and she does jump the line to bea real power in the GOP, then the old money control of the Republican party is completely gone – and the lunatics are running the asylum. (It is possible that the old money control is gone but some sane control continues, although difficult to envision.)
Bubblegum Tate
…that I’ve got to do something about this self-loathing, as reading this book is clearly a cry for help.
microtherion
I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small town America with rugged splashes of the last frontier.
Let me guess… crystal meth & cowshit?
Tonal Crow
…I immediately thought of Joseph Goebbels.
thomas Levenson
That’s the line that caught my attention. What? Sarah had nothing to do with the fact that liberals, moderates, and those conservatives still enjoying at least some of their higher cortical functions actually took note of the uncontested facts of her biography, her glancing relationship with the truth, and her stunning display of intellectual rigor day after day on the campaign.
Someone should have told me that each and every utterance that eructated from her mouth was simply performance art. Then I would have understood.
Shell
Shit, talk about reviews for a dollar.
Too bad the title, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius “, was already taken.
licensed to kill time
Like a lot of people, when I got my new copy of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. I immediately thought how Dr. Seuss was a much better author of word salad and funny, too.
He may have written these words with Sarah in mind:
“All ready to put up the tents for my circus
I think I will call it the Circus McGurkus
And now comes an act of enormous enormance
No former performer’s performed this performance!”
chuck
and in doing so removed myself from the target market.
Tsulagi
@dmsilev:
Little late for that. Clicked on a Newsmax ad here a few weeks ago offering the book.
Don’t delay, from Newsmax you too can go rogue buying the book for just $4.97! Not only that, you’ll also get a four-month Newsmax magazine subscription no doubt profiling up and coming teabaggers!
Wait, there’s more! Act now and they’ll also throw in a “free copy of Sarah Palin and “The Newer Feminism,” revealing how Sarah is changing the politics of womanhood!” I’m sure the BJ ladies wouldn’t want to miss out on those womanhood revelations.
SiubhanDuinne
@bemused:
I can’t tell you how pleased I am that until this moment I didn’t even know Joy Behar had her own talk show. (In fact, I hardly know who Joy Behar is — I think she’s one of the panelists on The View, right? — and helped La Palin with wardrobe choices during the campaign, or something? — but if she walked up to me on the street, I’m not at all sure I’d know her.)
When I read the Continetti piece earlier this morning, I thought he was just being snarky/sarcastic. It never once occurred to me to take him any more seriously than I take the book itself.
licensed to kill time
@Tsulagi:
Pretty soon they’ll be sending you $4.97 to take it off their hands, free S&H.
Jay
“a lot of people” is way, WAY smaller than “the majority of people”… way to mischaracterize the author.
Chad N Freude
It’s a perfume commercial.
R-Jud
@Tsulagi:
Totally! I am often worried that I’m not doing womanhood right. I mean, am I submitting to my husband’s authority enough? Am I doing everything I can to stop my infant from turning gay? Does liking cats mean I am secretly an Islamic Nazi Satanist? Will I go to hell for residing outside God’s America, even if I turn towards Alaska and recite the Pledge five times daily?
Thank heavens Sarah Palin is here to guide me.
tim
Ahhh…the daily BJ plug for our good buddy and trusted analyst with an excellent record of accuracy and level headed dispassion, Andrew Fifth Column Bareback Sullivan.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
Partly right. She is a panelist on The View, the loud menopausal Noo Yawker with red hair who is a former comedienne and a liberal. The Caribou Barbie wardrobe consultant is Elizabeth Hasselbeck, wife of failed NFL (NYGiants) quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, 4th place finisher in Survivor 2: The Outback, baby making machine, and rightwing village idiot.
jibeaux
@Jay:
And yet, presumably, at least one person more than Continetti.
Shell
I read the review, and beyond that first pompous sentence, it’s not very wing-nutty. It’s not really much of a review of the book itself. He pretty much saying that the book will be seen through the reader’s social and political context. If you like Sarah, you’ll like the book; if you don’t like her, well…
Uh, duh.
Tom
She has a place in public life; it’s called Dancing With The Stars.
D-Chance.
Eight… consecutive… Sarah! posts on the Dish.
Sully’s not obsessing over her… oh, no.
Bruce Webb
@Foxhunter:
Please can we avoid anything linking Sullivan to riding, bare back or otherwise? My brain is still seared from the revelation of some of his personal ads back in the day. “Too much information” doesn’t begin to sum it up.
Molly
@R-Jud: “Thank heavens Sarah Palin is here to guide me.”
Sarah has replaced my previous touchstone to femininity, Anita Bryant. Her spot-on advice about how to dress for running, how to field dress a moose, and how to raise my children with decent conservative values, drawn from Real America, has filled my life with purpose. I was lost as a woman, wife, and mother without her guiding light to shine the way.
I hate that woman.
Oh, and including “BJ” and “real woman” in the same sentence is just too ripe for inappropriate comments. Snort.
Colette
that my hovercraft contains even more eels than usual.
R-Jud
@Colette: Have you ever had Diet Coke come out your nose? It hurts. Thanks a lot.
@Molly:
“Step 1: Check the weather.
Step 2: Get nominated for VP on the Republican ticket.
Step 3: Have them buy you gear. Layers for the cold.
Step 4: Also.”
Corporate Dog
Like a lot of people, as soon as I ate the ham sandwich I brought for lunch, I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss.
chuck
I get it now. Continetti filled out a mad-lib.
frogtwanger
You know, it is valid to point out the obvious here. Those who do not learn from the past…
I wonder why no one has pointed out the obvious parallel between right wingers tactics now and the right wing nazi tactics?
I mean since right wingers are so free to use nazi slurs… the nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels used “the big lie”. He believed if you told even an obvious lie often and loudly, the masses would come to believe it was the truth. Unfortunately there always seem to be a ready supply of knuckle draggers anxious to prove him right. One of his favorite lies was to accuse opponents of pushing the country into socialism… of being weak liberals. The nazi’s slowly began urging followers into ever more violent protests. The rest is history.
I wonder if more media had spoken out if the nazi’s could have been stopped?
Gomonkeygo
@dmsilev:
You forgot the obvious!
“Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” I immediately thought of…”
…suicide.
Or…
…self-immolation.
Or…
…buying a home lobotomy kit.
and the list goes on and on and one and on
HRA
Hans Robert Jauss first publication date is 1952 and last one is 2007 per the Library of Congress.
I saw Continetti on Hardball and I will certainly avoid seeing him on TV again.
Hob
Holy crap, that sentence has to be a prank or a misprint, right?
Maybe he actually meant to write “I immediately thought of the English and German literary critics Hugh Jass and I.P. Frielich”?
Crap, I got nuthin. Y’all are very funny and that makes me happy, but I still find it incredibly depressing that there is someone like Palin writing(?) books, and someone like Continetti writing bullshit like that and someone publishing them both.
gogol's wife
Against my better judgment, I read Mr. Continetti’s piece. To be fair, I think his line about Jauss is a feeble attempt at what is known as wit. But I forgive him because he gave birth to this hilarious thread.
keestadoll
“Why, yes. I bet the majority of the folks who buy Sarah Palin’s book immediately think of Hans Robert Jauss.”
:D!!
LOLOLOLOL.
That’s it.
w b carnochan
Jauss may have been with Hitler in his bunker. Perhaps that’s the connection.
wbc
tamied
@gogol’s wife: This. I’ve been giggling all day and I’m at work!
Svensker
@Colette:
This whole thread is gold, but in a very close race, you FTW!
Skepticat
I think he meant Hans Christian Andersen.
fortygeek
@microtherion:
dmsilev already won the thread, but that deserves an honorable mention.
Original Lee
… I immediately thought of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.
BillCinSD
@jibeaux: I’m not sure Mike could do it period. Well, to the public. I have heard him swear in private
chamois
You mean he lit a jauss stick?
lr
Like a lot of people, as soon as I read BOB’s comment, I immediately thought, “Well, they’ve finally found a way to blame the financial meltdown on Obama.”
Wile E. Quixote
@Matt Continetti
Oh, great, a German version of Jacques Derrida and Paul De Man. Thus answering the question: How could you make postmodernist, deconstructionist assholes like Derrida more annoying and full of shit than they already are? Make them Germans.
This is so goddamned pathetic. I mean you’ve got a half-bright WaPo columnist spewing bullshit from a less than half-bright school of academic theories that are every bit as masturbatory and useless as anything ever produced by Regence U about a VP candidate who made Dan Quayle look like a polymath, a political genius and a great rhetorician. It’s not just stupid, it’s meta stupid. It’s like some sort of fractal version of stupid, no matter how you look at it or what scale you view it it it’s still stupid, from the very large to the very small.
Wile E. Quixote
@New Yorker
Look, someone has to say it, but damnit, drugs are getting a bad rap here. I’ve done lots and lots and lots of drugs. Some of them which were sold to me in coffee shops in Amsterdam, others which were prescribed to me by doctors, or at least by very authoritative people wearing white coats and I’ve never said the kind of weird shit that BoB does or built an shit ugly brick oven in my yard.
I once got so stoned in Amsterdam that I forgot how to speak English. Seriously, I forgot my mother tongue. I had to call a cab and go back to my hotel and I had to do so speaking German because I couldn’t fucking speak English any more. But despite that I’ve never said anything crazy like the shit that BoB says.
Right after my motorcycle accident they had me jacked up on oxycodone and morphine, so much morphine that I started hallucinating and every time I fell asleep I went into a two minute nightmare loop and kept reliving the accident but despite the nightmares and hallucinations I never said any crazy shit like BoB does or had the urge to build a fugly brick oven in my back yard so I could cook pizza that looks like something that’s been sitting under the heat lamps at a mall food court Sbarro’s for a week of hot and humid summer days.
Last week after my spinal fusion I was sucking down heroic quantities of Oⅹyⅽoⅾone and had a dream where I finished Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan but I never wrote dreamed weird shit about Sarah Palin, caribou, Goldman Sachs, Obama and ugly brick excrescences that look like something Ed Gein would have used to dispose of the remains of his victims (or that Glenn Beck would have used to dispose of the remains of that girl that he raped and murdered in 1990). Never, not once.
Drugs are getting a bad rap here. It’s not the drugs, it’s the crazy. Or maybe crazy + BoB fueling his wood oven with pieces of wood covered in lead based paints.
Wile E. Quixote
@Brick Oven Bill
I dunno, I think I’d rather have Sarah go Rock of the Westies on Goldman Sachs than Caribou, but ideally she’d go Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy because that album is fantastic.
trumandem
I have to say this is about the funniest thread in blogdom I’ve ever read. The mere thought of any run of the mill Palin follower/supporter would even have a notion who Hans Robert Jauss may be is in of itself hilarious. I would almost give anything to hear Palin’s response to an interviewer asking her about Continetti’s allusion to Jauss’ theories about a reader’s bias, prejudices, world view, values, and experiences acting as a filter as they read her book.
Even better, I would love to hear an interviewer, as a lark, ask her about current U.S. policy regarding Fredonia and whether or not she agrees with it. The ensuing hilarity would transend normal human consciousness to a level never achieved in this plane of existence….
Leelee for Obama
Totally awesome!
Origuy
@Original Lee: I was thinking more of Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen
mandarama
@Wile E. Quixote:
This fellow academic is intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
kilkee
@MysticalChick: Just wondering how old John Ziegler is. Might his lifetime horizon not include, say, Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples?
Molly
@Wile E. Quixote: Just want you to know that this is one of my favorite posts ever, and “meta stupid” will henceforth be part of my personal lexicon.
Warren Farrell
Great review! It’s nice to see that there are such great stories in these books!
jibeaux
@BillCinSD:
Mike is SUCH a sweetheart, isn’t he?
D-Chance.
There needs to be a special Sullivan Award for this level of mental illness…