To the recent debacle about the olfactory PhD*:
I am glad that 21 years ago when I defended my PhD thesis (also in literature), there wasn’t social media as powerful as Twitter is now. I am absolutely certain I wouldn’t be able to handle that amount of vitriol from complete strangers gracefully.
I thought—arguably, that was silly naïveté from my part—that you must separate the work from its creator if you want to start a discussion on the subject. Boy oh boy, was I wrong.
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*I’ve already seen some hectic suggestions that the entire thing is a prank, which, potentially, could be the case, but as of now I consider it to be genuine. We’ll see.
UPD. She’s real.
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Apparently, the main topic of the BBC Today Programme (which was, in fact, aired today) was how to cook porridge when you are on a tight budget, and the presenters and studio guests went full blown “Catherine Tate gooseberry cinnamon yoghurt from Waitrose” mode: it was so unreal, tone-deaf and ridiculous that at first I thought it was a prank, yet they were dead serious; I prefer my porridge with a sprinkle of tahini, Demerara sugar, a generous dollop of Greek yoghurt and organic Acacia honey, they said.
GIRL, WHY NOT WITH A WHITE TRUFFLE AND AN EDELWEISS FROM THE MATTERHORN ON TOP.
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