[ganked from mizchalmers feed from her other blog yatima_feed]

Seth had writ­ten an art­icle about Rus­tic­a­tio Cali­for­ni­ana for Annalee’s magazine Other.

Danny: I liked how the art­icle was pitched to the magazine’s target audi­ence. Lots of Lat­in­ate perversion.

A: It’s so cute, I think Seth sees Latin itself as a sort of altern­at­ive sexual identity.

S: I -

D: No, shush. I think we should be able to estab­lish this from a closer tex­tual analysis.

R: Let’s inject dye into his brain and dis­sect him.

Q: Could­n’t we just do an MRI?

R: No, I think any pro­ced­ure he can sur­vive will leave us with linger­ing questions.

D: This is a rad­ical new mode in lit­er­ary cri­ti­cism. You could totally get fund­ing and tenure.

R: It’s just the death of the author.

S: That’s the fun­ni­est joke about my death that any­one’s made today -