Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The rhetoric of pretentious English grad students

We came up with an interesting mock discussion in Rhetoric today:

First speaker: Indeed, any meaningful deconstruction of T.S. Eliot's aforementioned allegorical peregrinations will at once reveal a trend in the resulting literary theory of recent post-structural discourse.

Other speaker: I concur to your most astute analysis, although his logistics are at times also indicative of later positivist sociological optimism.

Waitress: Would you like some more coffee?

First speaker: I acquiesce. I do desire to satiate my predilection for caffeinated beverages most promptly. As Carnap would say, "in coffee is the substantial unity and implorement of the spirit."

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