Tuesday, July 26, 2005

When all you have is a thesis,

Crazy Foreigners

everything looks like an argument. Which is to say, studying something very very closely will sometimes result in surprising insights. Of course, other times you will come to completely insane conclusions that no sane person would find persuasive; say, the theory that gay people threaten my and your marriage. (Okay, that was a misrepresentation. People who say that have not studied the issue closely at all.)

What is this guy talking about, you ask? First he’s on about theses acting like hammes, then something about the gays, and now we’re waist-deep in a thicket of self-referential onanism that would redden the face of David Eggers. If I’da wanted this kind of crazy today I’d have called up the Lyndon LaRouche hotline!

Well, here’s the thing. NDR, also known as Nathaniel of Rhine River is writing his dissertation on, loosely speaking, issues of identity in the Rhine River region, which is neither specifically French nor German.

He finds some parallels between the American project in Iraq and France’s integration of Rhenish peoples into France. To wit: Rhinelanders accepted France for the stability and infrastructure they lent, but still resented them for the supercilious frogs they were, so to speak. And this might be a sign of a healthy people.

Also, one of his bunnies recieved an unintended bris thanks to his other bunny. Weird.


Posted by Johno on 07/26/05 at 05:02 PM
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