【chaucer’s (anti-)eroticisms and the queer middle ages by tison pugh】

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The chaucer’s (anti-)eroticisms and the queer middle ages by tison pughLogistics of Ark-Building, and Other News

By Dan Piepenbring

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Simon de Myle, Noah’s Ark on the Mount Ararat, 1570

  • Will García Márquez’s unpublished manuscript ever see the light of day?
  • The eagerly anticipated third edition of the OED won’t appear until 2034—and it probably won’t be available in print.
  • “The ark is the first impressive man-made creation, the world’s first ambitious piece of technology. In the world of Genesis … a world of slick-talking snakes, cherubs with flaming swords, and guys who live to be eight hundred years old—the ark gives us something pragmatic, something with worldly dimensions. In other words, some literary realism.”
  • Meanwhile, in 1895: What compelled Paul Gauguin to take off his pants and play the harmonium? Science may never know.
  • Hey, hotshot: “the way we Americans casually, often unthinkingly, incorporate gun metaphors into our everyday slang says a lot about how deeply embedded guns are in our culture and our politics, and how difficult it is to control or extract them.”

 

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