Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
2/12: an analogy
...that was really good. I like using analogies in my teaching, and I'm always happy when I think of a new vivid simile for some aspect of what we're doing in a class. But today it was a student who came up with one. We were working on Latin sentence translation together in office hours so that he could see how the forms of words help you know what they're doing syntactically, and he described translating without attention to syntax as being like when someone tries to shove puzzle pieces together that don't fit.
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