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Micah True

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Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at U of Alberta • Early modern New France and France (literature, history, theatre) • Translator/translation studies • Zags hoops • books • academic life. *Just published: The Jesuit Relations: A Biography*

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Jun 13

Had a great time talking with @gmarchildon.bsky.social about my new book for the Champlain Society’s podcast Witness to Yesterday.

The Jesuit Relations - Champlain Society

Greg Marchildon speaks with Micah True about his book, The Jesuit Relations.

champlainsociety.utppublishing.com

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 1d

It's tucked into a manuscript containing Gendron's remedies for a variety of ailments, in a small private collection of his papers. I haven't seen anything else that could shed light, but also haven't made my way through the entire manuscript yet.

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 6d

Curious little archival find: a sample of “herbe pour la rage,” apparently given in the 17th century to a French surgeon by John Locke. Any Locke experts out there know what he might have recommended for rabies/fits of violent anger? Answer could be at left, which I haven’t deciphered yet.

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 6d

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Jun 13

Had a great time talking with @gmarchildon.bsky.social about my new book for the Champlain Society’s podcast Witness to Yesterday.

The Jesuit Relations - Champlain Society

Greg Marchildon speaks with Micah True about his book, The Jesuit Relations.

champlainsociety.utppublishing.com

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, that would make it especially fowl. Heh.

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 13d

My work email (gmail) keeps autocorrecting duck--as in "duck out of a meeting"--to fuck. Bets on how long it's going to take for me to fail to notice this before clicking send on an email to the provost or whatever?

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 14d

This is a really good point.

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 14d

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 16d

The first (of several) opportunities this fall to hear me talk about my new book on the Jesuit Relations is Nov. 13, in Boston College's online Jesuit Studies Café series. Registration link here: www.bc.edu/bc-web/cente...
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 17d

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order:

Blackadder
Uncle
Silicon Valley
Veep
Jeeves and Wooster
Letterkenny
The Inbetweeners
Archer
Community
Arrested Development

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 17d

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order.

Green Wing
Scrotal Recall (Lovesick)
The League of Gentlemen
Absolutely Fabulous
Blackadder
Yes (Prime) Minister
The Good Place
The Office (UK)
The Thick of It
Schitts Creek

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 18d

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order.

Cheers
The Phil Silvers Show
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads
Porridge
First Ten Years Of The Simpsons
New Girl
30 Rock
Hancock
The Larry Sanders Show
Better Things

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 21d

The phone in my office was removed due to budget cuts about 15 years ago and I have never once been sad about that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21d

Someone just left me a voicemail at work that said, in its entirety:

"Well, hello, professor. You've got it all wrong with respect to the shooter. Can't believe. I was gonna say I can't believe it, but you're a university professor, of course I can. Have a good day. Bye."

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 26d

It really is. Such a huge amount of material choose from.

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 26d

Forget everything I ever said about not liking LinkedIn.

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 27d

Oh no, is that a red-eye? I was the temporary host of one of those on my 21st. Feel sick just thinking about it.

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Sep 8

Well I’m stumped, then.

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is no time for half measures.

a man is holding a light saber in his hand with a red light coming out of it

ALT: a man is holding a light saber in his hand with a red light coming out of it

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 30

My favourite thing to do when my kids are playing hide and seek in the house with their friends is to hide in a super obvious spot and scare whoever finds me silly. Good clean fun.

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 21

I am in the do-everything-I-can-to-avoid-writing stage of a new article project.

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 20

It’s hard, going through life being this fussy about words.

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 20

In a zoom meeting we were looking at a document and it said something about reigning in (excess). So I axed the G but SOMEONE PUT IT BACK and so I was basically forced to explain the metaphor—horses, not kings—and anyway I probably ended up looking like a total pedant but at least there’s no G now.

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 12

In Alberta, we now have to register in advance and pay out of pocket for the Covid shot. This vaccine was a damned miracle, and now it’s like they’re trying to make sure no one gets it. Maddening.

Albertans can sign up for fall COVID-19 shot but cost still unknown | CBC News

Albertans can now sign up to get the next COVID-19 vaccination in the fall but the province won't yet say how much the shot will cost.

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm curious what grocery shopping is like in the US right now. In Canada, items subject to tariffs are labeled, as are domestically produced alternatives. Makes it easy make informed choices, which used to be more labour intensive. Are people in the US getting any of this info in the grocery store?

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 9

I can neatly fold a king-sized fitted sheet.

Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hey, we made the New York Times! Another proud moment as an Alberta resident…

Measles Spreads Quickly in Rural Alberta Areas That Resisted Vaccines

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 7

How long until someone comes along and sharpies those words on the white paper? Blank piece of paper…excellent way to make sure those rooms aren’t labeled. 😆

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · Aug 6

What I've learned about translating early modern texts is that when dictionaries are no help deciphering an unusual term, just keep looking in more dictionaries. As many as it takes. I just finally found what I needed in the literal ELEVENTH dictionary I checked. No help at all in the others.