A bold if unexpected abstract for a book chapter in historiography in 2025
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Taylor Swift, “the sin of wit”, and an “erroneous attribution"
For last week's Taylor Swift session, I discussed wit in "Mr. Perfectly Fine" from "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" (2021). To begin, I quoted ...
This week's essay—about
#Borges and
#PierreMenard— is one I worked on for more years than I haven't: getting the basic idea years if not decades before I wrote any of it, writing multiple drafts over the years. I hope you'll give it a read.
https://stephenfrug.substack.com/p/jorge-luis-borges-author-of-pierre
Jorge Luis Borges, Author of Pierre Menard's Don Quixote
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Attempts (2.0)Pierre Menard's The Asteroids by Ben Bittner