the fruits of procrastination

[bigbeard61]

In the seven hours I've been banging out an in-class writing assignment on As You Like It, I have discovered that this play mentions beards far more than any other Shakespeare play: 14 times. The next closest is King Lear, with 8.

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[danbearnyc]

At CUNY there was a member of the queer historians group who sat in our course on "The Other WWI." His great area of expertise was Sir Roger Casement, and for class one week he brought in a paper that detailed, in painstaking analytical and statistical detail, precisely how frequently how many different variations on penis size were mentioned in his diaries.

Oddly, it was not great listening.