Blog Comment

I study a guy who regularly attempted to erase his own past. He extolled the greatness of Boston's eighteenth-century Black poetess, Phyllis Wheatley, only to omit that reference in subsequent copies of the same tract (because someone else had written that she was not great). He proclaimed the evils of publishing anonymously though he had anonymously attacked George Washington . . .. All this is by way of admitting that some entries in this blog have been removed. As much as we might wish to be, Auditus, Thesaurus and Definer are not Wonkette. We are serious academics and so unserious blog entries have been deleted. We also recognize that readers may have been disappointed by our absense over the past two months but all three of us have been buried in work - summers are not kind to academics.

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