I just received some most excellent news.
Or more accurately: I was made an offer--which I have accepted--that could result in, like, the only thing for which I’m remembered professionally (if indeed I’m remembered for anything).
Better than a funerary monument, anyway.
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Yay! Congratulations!!
Wow! Congratulations! --on whatever it is!
Huzzah! Congrats!
But so cryptic... hang on, hang on, I've got it: they're adding your name to the façade of Columbia's Butler Library, aren't they? "Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Flavia..."
'Bout time someone broke that glass ceiling.
Neophyte, that's hilarious!!
So I'm guessing it's a book contract?
Wait, you're not going to burn all your worldly possessions, including your concubines, are you?
Or will you prostrate yourself naked at the feet of someone who *is* going to burn all his possessions?
wonderful!!! Congrats!!!
Neo: aw, shucks. And here I thought I was being so vague and coy! The stonemasons are at it even as we speak.
Dr. V: as for contracts: let's just say that there's no such thing for that mess that is my monograph--and I promise you, I'll be blogging in painful detail about the contract-seeking as it occurs!
And as for the self-immolation: hee! But this is what I'm really talking about (start with the 11th para). So yeah: the title is meant semi-ironically. But it does include a hint, if a somewhat misleading one.
Wait, someone called you a Nimrod?
Congrats?
It is _so_ hard for us modern people to follow y'all when you get all allusionary.
How's the cat doing with the subletted place? Oh, and I totally want to hear all the gory details about book prospectus-prepping!
Congratulations on whatever this mysterious but clearly good offer is!
congrats!!!
Hey! Just in time for barbecue season!
A hearty but still partly-mystified congratulations!
Here's to peaking early in one's career!
You have agreed to be a human test subject for some kind of cultish premodern liquefaction experiment. (please no, i like you in solid form)
You will host the funeral of a really famous academic jackass. (interesting but weird that you'd be so publicly excited about it)
You are invited to study a creepy, kick-ass Assyrian graveyard. (honestly, this is my best guess other than the nimrod thing)
Tell.
I think its an edition - something Miltonish? Enormous congratulations, anyway.
I'm with Harriet here. Academic monographs are lovely, but you'll reach more people with an edition, hence the immortality.
I'd hazard a guess that it's an edition of Browne, but that would probably be too obvious (and those who read Browne are a smaller group than those who read, say, Donne. I bet it's Donne). But whatever it is, I'll go out and buy a copy (instead of just getting the desk copy).
Mazel-Tov!
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