I& #39;m getting free, topnotch advice about my scholarly prose from someone who seems to have never published!

This nugget fills me with gratitude (watch me quote it with care https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😉" title="Winking face" aria-label="Emoji: Winking face">):

"You& #39;re supposed to be a vicious and criticize the bad ideas out of existence."

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The layers of metacommentary that are made possible by Alexander& #39;s stellar advice, I enjoy them so much! Nerdy, I know.

What if . . . it& #39;s the bad idea that scholars must fight viciously against each other that I want to argue out of existence?

What if, then, . . . I& #39;ve already done so by writing a whole research article about it, built on evidence and full of my cutting criticism, and gotten it through peer review, too, with the help of my vicious arguments?

What if . . . my critic Alexander is looking at this very article while he& #39;s trying to tell me who knows what . . . his pretty image a mirror image in another mirror, refracting?

James & Alexander: two men who haven& #39;t the foggiest what #genretheory is or what #writingstudies does telling me I do my research wrong, am fucking wasting my life, & can& #39;t see how tragic it is that I& #39;m not studying "the important things" within "the grievance fields."

Funny.

I have to admit, however, this thread was a pleasure to write. I& #39;ll reiterate my feeling from the beginning tweet: I& #39;m grateful Alexander & James gave me the opportunity to write this. It is truly a joy walking circles around them sometimes.

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