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Zachary Lesser

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Book history, Shakespeare, early modern studies @ Penn English. Views just my own. Image in header is from: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen'l Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org/ / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · May 31

LADY MACDUFF
For the poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will piss
Into the sea.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 19h

Gordon Korman books are great

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 1d

Other universities such as, e.g., @upenn.edu !

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, she is named Eve

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 2d

Too long to wait!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

Now I want a bumper sticker that reads:

Thus they relate,
Erring.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

I have found this to be very hard

Reposted by Zachary Lesser

Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social · 4d

I generally endorse poetry bumper stickers, but no. Exactly the opposite.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 4d

Never apologize for using an Arden @ardenpublisher.bsky.social !even if it's Arden 2!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 7d

Well, by "way out", I mean, avoid having to make a choice either way. Avoid having to do one thing or the other.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 7d

stalling also is a way to see what others do. Prisoner's dilemma is at work here.

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 7d

it's meant to stall; they are buying time hoping to find a way out. That's my guess.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 7d

So the secret to Bluesky is... kebabs?

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 8d

Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 8d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 8d

They were such a revelation. I first tuned in to them with Fables, then found Murmur, and then realized that Reckoning was my favorite. I lost track of them after about 1990 and I think they declined but I think people don't realize how incredible they were for a stretch in the 80s

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 8d

Also, if the university gives Trump their mobile number, they get 10% off their first order

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 8d

Oh yeah I had this last time you posted about it. Delicious!

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 8d

No but I'm gonna! You're killing me on a fast day though

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

Oh that's very far from the passport place which is not far from my house

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 9d

Where's this sandwich exactly?

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 11d

Delightful. Something similar happened at my house about ten years ago when i burned something in the kitchen and set off the alarm

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 12d

And that doing those politics isn't synonymous with abandoning one's values or throwing people under the bus. Or doesn't have to be.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 12d

Coates made that point well I thought, and showed how it emerges out of a particular tradition, as does Klein's misperception of it.

But I think Klein was also right about certain segments of the left preferring easy judgment and condemnation over hard politics.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 13d

Is this just a misuse of the word "novel"?

Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 15d

They should close their library too. All those books, who's really using them anyway?

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 15d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 16d

Not made up!

www.aafs.org/careers-ques...

Careers in Questioned Documents

Questioned document examination, also referred to as forensic document examination, is the branch of forensic science best known for the determination of authorship of signatures and handwriting but, ...