There are really times I wonder...

...what a sane person like me is doing here. I honest to fuck just encountered a three page article all about how the title of Melville's epic poem Clarel is pronounced. Is the emphasis on the first or second syllable? It isn't clear which, because the (relentless) iambic tetrameter of the poem presents both possibilities! Isn't that fascinating?!

Three whole pages just to say this. And then it was published. *headdesk* Oh my god, you guys, why am I working with these people, again?

See, when I say that literary scholarship is just another fandom (or huge slew of different fandoms) I'm totally not kidding. The flame wars over utterly inconsequential things just involve more syllables.

On which note: Rolfe + Vine = OTP. Some day I really will print a bumpersticker of that, and about five other people in the whole world will know what it means. Academia: redefining "small fandom".