7 thoughts on “These “Fixed, Eternal” Commandments for Academic Job Seekers are 100% True.”
This elicited an hysterical lachweinen in me. Particularly since I decided to finally look at the “updated” MLA job list. You know, the February edition where “most” people landed their first job.
What is it about doing a humanities PhD that causes us to engage in this kind of repetition compulsion?
If you change the name of your blog to Nibelungenblog, you might hear a lot of: “kúndestu nóch geswîgen, daz wæré dir guot.”
(I think that’s tone-shaming in MHG.)
PAN KISSES KAFKA 
This elicited an hysterical lachweinen in me. Particularly since I decided to finally look at the “updated” MLA job list. You know, the February edition where “most” people landed their first job.
What is it about doing a humanities PhD that causes us to engage in this kind of repetition compulsion?
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It looks like Wolfram von Eschenbach covered this pretty well in Parzival: If you can’t guess what I’m thinking, you aren’t qualified to work here.
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I demand every comment from now on reference either Parzival or the Nibelungenlied. And not just from you. ALL COMMENTS.
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Hey now! Who died and made you König Etzel? 😉
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MOAR MEDIEVAL GERMAN REFERENCES PLEEZ. I’mma change my name to the Nibelungenblog just to piss off all the medievalists.
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If you change the name of your blog to Nibelungenblog, you might hear a lot of: “kúndestu nóch geswîgen, daz wæré dir guot.”
(I think that’s tone-shaming in MHG.)
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
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