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"My mom is better than your mom!" Suddenly, remembering it's the late Ming Dynasty, "Under Heaven!"

It bothers me that protagonist Proust is bothered by the possibility that Albertine might have same-sex desires. Who... cares?

寄姐把那不賢惠臭臉一放放將下來，氣的象豬肝顏色一樣，罵道：「臭賊！不長進的忘八！你沒本事掙件衣服給老婆穿，就不消攬下老婆！你既攬下老婆，不叫穿件衣裳，難道光著屁股走麼？你是那混賬不值錢的老婆生的，不害羞；我是好人家兒女，知道羞恥，要穿件衣裳，要戴點子首飾！你既不肯教老婆打扮，我光著屁股走就是了，羞你娘的臭臉！」一面口裏村捲，一面將那做的衣裳扯的粉碎，把那玉簪玉花都敲成爛醬往河裡亂撩，罵道：「咱大家不得！沒見食面淫婦生的！」

狄希陳雖是被薛素姐打罵慣的，到了寄姐這個田地，未免也有些血性上來，說道：「你毀壞我這許多禮物，都小事，你開口只罵我的娘，我的娘又沒惹你，你又沒見他的面，你只管罵他怎的！你家裏沒放著娘麼？」寄姐道：「俺母是好人家兒子，骨頭尊重，生的好兒好女，不似你娘生你這們杭杭子！合我媽使天平兑兑，比你娘沉重多著哩！」 醒世姻緣傳 -> 第八十七回童寄姐撒潑投河　權奶奶爭風吃醋

book cover, spiral flaming beacon thing

spousal arguments in A Marriage Fate to Awaken the Ages 醒世姻緣傳 (17th C.) so bad, you can feel their reality

"if you can't afford to clothe your wife, I'll walk around naked to shame your worthless *$#%& mother, who sells her body to eat!"

"How dare you, daughter of a silversmith, say such things?"

I'm partly just venting about publication pressures, if we're being honest

but there's a truth to it, I generally think we need to learn to associate over-publication with narcissism and invidiousness

publication rate among scholars of literature is unambiguously a negative indicator

quantity was always algorithmic (derog.)

a "prolific" academic was already a red flag, even before AI

On this topic, a quick thread of other good reads about this whole sex-in-literature thing 🧵

"My mom is better than your mom!" Suddenly, remembering it's the late Ming Dynasty, "Under Heaven!"

寄姐把那不賢惠臭臉一放放將下來，氣的象豬肝顏色一樣，罵道：「臭賊！不長進的忘八！你沒本事掙件衣服給老婆穿，就不消攬下老婆！你既攬下老婆，不叫穿件衣裳，難道光著屁股走麼？你是那混賬不值錢的老婆生的，不害羞；我是好人家兒女，知道羞恥，要穿件衣裳，要戴點子首飾！你既不肯教老婆打扮，我光著屁股走就是了，羞你娘的臭臉！」一面口裏村捲，一面將那做的衣裳扯的粉碎，把那玉簪玉花都敲成爛醬往河裡亂撩，罵道：「咱大家不得！沒見食面淫婦生的！」

狄希陳雖是被薛素姐打罵慣的，到了寄姐這個田地，未免也有些血性上來，說道：「你毀壞我這許多禮物，都小事，你開口只罵我的娘，我的娘又沒惹你，你又沒見他的面，你只管罵他怎的！你家裏沒放著娘麼？」寄姐道：「俺母是好人家兒子，骨頭尊重，生的好兒好女，不似你娘生你這們杭杭子！合我媽使天平兑兑，比你娘沉重多著哩！」 醒世姻緣傳 -> 第八十七回童寄姐撒潑投河　權奶奶爭風吃醋

book cover, spiral flaming beacon thing

spousal arguments in A Marriage Fate to Awaken the Ages 醒世姻緣傳 (17th C.) so bad, you can feel their reality

"if you can't afford to clothe your wife, I'll walk around naked to shame your worthless *$#%& mother, who sells her body to eat!"

"How dare you, daughter of a silversmith, say such things?"

I am
not using
the profanity
that you left here
Millennial
For the love of God
Keep that
shit
Out of your poetry

I know it's common for the field, but it's time to phase it out

it doesn't serve any clear function, it sounds racist, and it feeds the worst kinds of jealousies and suspicions

I don't know, lol. It just seems that a great way to make everyone (ESL scholars, CSL scholars, anyone in between) equally anxious

is this a specifically Chinese thing?

is an orientalism being done? or are all the languages similarly measured in terms of... nativity?

it's 2025 and applications to university positions are still asking if you have "native" and "near-native" language proficiency 💀

@edwardw2.bsky.social I remember you recommending this one, back in the day

I cannot believe Ming-Qing literature just has "in its back pocket" what might be the best queer novel of the 19th C.

just, like, on the shelf, collecting dust, "nothing to see here"

Back cover blurb of St. Clair's Sign of the Labrys. WOMEN ARE WRITING SCIENCE-FICTION! ORIGINAL! BRILLIANT!! DAZZLING!! Women are closer to the primitive than men. They are conscious of the moon-pulls, the earth-tides. They possess a buried memory of humankind’s obscure and ancient past which can emerge to uniquely color and flavor a novel. Such a woman is Margaret St. Clair, author of this novel. Such a novel is this. SIGN OF THE LABRYS, the story of a doomed world of the future, saved by recourse to the ageless, immemorial rites... FRESH! IMAGINATIVE!! INVENTIVE!!!

Or perhaps not.

a recent example from my stuff: there must be least a hundred articles speculating on whether Pu Songling is also the author of A Marriage Fate to Awaken the Ages 醒世姻緣傳 (17th C.)?

millions of words, and the only connection is that they both use some Shandong local dialectic... 🫤

99% of all secondary literature in all subfields is tedious claptrap that causes its reader legitimate brain damage

doesn't mean you shouldn't read it, though

Ibis (1985) is good, actually

www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/08/29/s...

if your theory of history reduces all destruction to production ("the linen was destroyed to produce the shirt"), and you're witnessing billionaires buy up all the newspapers just to destroy them, maybe you need a new theory of history

it's very clear the OP isn't advocating for anything other than masking when it's convenient in public

don't feed the trolls, jamelle

anyway, it's not a coincidence that I might notice this

basically, the same dialectic occurs with Buddhist monks in Ming-Qing literature

every single text is like, "Damn, curious how this man who has dedicated his life to the disavowal of desire himself now resembles a large phallus? Significant?

there is a monkey's paw logic to how the "pursuit of masculinity" and the use of weird supplements has resulted in so many men who now themselves physically resemble phalluses

("canon" in the broadest possible sense... novels from this period that are extant and widely available)

(obscurely) I think you could read through most of the Ming-Qing canon of xiaoshuo novels in about 3000 hours

你在重庆风流过, asks Zhan-zhang from Qianfu (2008)

don't retweet if you've never let loose (morally) (風流過) in Chongqing

你在重庆风流过, asks Zhan-zhang from Qianfu (2008)

don't retweet if you've never let loose (morally) (風流過) in Chongqing

minor subplot to Dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Rui clowning with the so-called mirror for romantics 風月寶鑑

Infinite Jest (1996)

icymi 🌸🌺✨🪞