[lit-ideas] Re: JSTOR: entirely Robert Paul's fault
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:14:50 -0600
Do not, oh do not Monsieur Yost, cast disillusion this way .... you have for
so long been one of the very few lucky b%^%^%$#rds! FIGHT for it ... do not
allow them sway. Carry on, proud gadfly, carry on!
Julie Krueger
(beggin' fergiveness for my folly and whimsy, I am, it's awful cold and when
I burrow up out of the little snow there shall be 5 days ice, they say)
On Dec 7, 2007 12:31 AM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert Paul: JSTOR
>
> You lucky b%^%^%$#rd!!!
>
> Why is JSTOR not free?
>
> Do you realize how many Google scholar quests my lack of a JSTOR
> subscription has foiled? Gazillions! ("Gazillions" is a marginalized
> person's approximation of 5,427.)
>
> I blame you personally, Robert Paul. Pretending to be all reasonable and
> kind and welcoming and populist and loving basketball -- all the while
> possessing that most elite of resources, a JSTOR free pass. Figures.
>
> Free the bleeding masses, you say, and lounge around Reed, then
> surreptitiously slouch home to your posh 9x10 to the 670000th power RAM
> computer where you log on to a JSTOR account that reveals the latest
> scholarship.
>
> We're out here bleeding in the muddy street, and you get to peruse Homi
> Bhaba's latest incomprehensible paragraph. We're stuck reading
> aftershave labels in the water closet, while you choose between vast
> tomes of erudition, inhabiting a world of pure beatification
> incomprehensible to us untermenschen.
>
> Figures, doesn't it? Grrr......
>
>
> In jeu d'esprit,
> Jester
>
>
>
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