Leda and the swan comes to mind.
Oh, I put this link in another thread, but it really belongs here:
OT, but I guess tweeting one’s dissertation is the new elevator speech…
No, actually, I think he did an excellent job. It was a real dissertation done a while ago (not sure when), and he was summarizing it nicely to explain the current issue.
I happen to be a fan of employing an outside discipline/structure to focus one’s ideas. The sonnet form, etc.
AGENT 1: That dude over there is pointing a gun at President Trump.
AGENT 2: You think one of us should jump in front of him and take the bullet?
AGENT 1: Let’s just see how it plays out.
Oh, no. It was a perfect distillation of his work. Just we all have to perfect our “elevator speech” because you never know when you’ll be at a conference and end up in an elevator with a professor who can get you a good job, so this is just the digital version of that.
Oh, now I understand!
Throughout all of his campaigning for Bernie, Killer Mike seemed like a pretty bright, clear-headed guy about things. Sadly, I was wrong, he’s just one of those people who claims that both candidates are exactly the same thing and he’s literally a Trump apologist. Ah well.