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The great American novel: Invisible Man
Yesterday the National Association of Scholars inaugurated a new series on the Great American Novel with a program on Ralph Ellison’s
Invisible Man. The program is accessible here at the NAS YouTube channel. Moderator David Randall kindly led off the questions with one I had submitted in advance because I had a conflict with the live presentation on Zoom.
Check out the NAS site here. You can subscribe to the NAS email newsletter at the bottom of its About Us page. I think that’s how I learned about yesterday’s program.
Insofar as academic literary studies have declined into a sinister farce, I think this series is a brilliant use of the NAS’s time and resources. I found the panel to be disappointing, but the NAS’s selection of Ellison’s novel to lead off the new series is nothing short of perfect. It is
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“They must be out of their minds.’’
-- Prince Philip (born 1921), in the Solomon Islands in 1982, after he was told that the annual population growth there was 5 percent. The prince, aka the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9, was famous for “outrageous” remarks, some of which were very funny – to some of us.
Encouraging the Anti-Vaxxers
The decision to “pause’’ the Johnson & Johnson one-shot COVID-19 vaccine is unfortunate. After all, only a minuscule number of people (six out of 6.8 million as of last Tuesday) who have been jabbed with it have gotten blood clots. The biggest danger of pulling the vaccine is that too many people will decide not to get vaccinated with any shot. Getting COVID-19 is far, far, far more dangerous than any vaccine for it. And J&J’s vaccine is particularly useful because it requires only one shot to be effective, and thus is obviously a way to get many more people quickly and fully vaccinated than with the two-shot vaccines Pfizer and Moderna (and maybe soon the promising Novavax).
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