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eggs & termites - 20 feb 2024

He has long since ceased to be surprised at the range of ignorance of his students. Post-Christian, posthistorical, postliterate, they might as well have been hatched from eggs yesterday.

The language he draws on with such aplomb is, if he only knew it, tired, friable, eaten from the inside as if by termites. Only the monosyllables can still be relied on, and not even all of them.

J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace

shrink wrap - 20 feb 2024

Anna: you have repressed memories, you know that

Doctor: it's on the other end of the spectre

... heard in transit