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In case anyone is wondering: I haven’t disappeared. My freshman seminar last semester on math, linguistics, and writing went really well, and I’m looking forward to writing an extensive reflection on what I learned from the experience. But I do have a dissertation that needs to be finished, so that reflection is on the back …
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The eponymous hero of Saul Bellow’s Herzog spends his days writing letters. Moses Herzog1 is writing to “everyone under the sun…to the newspapers, to people in public life, to friends and relatives and at last to the dead, his own obscure dead, and finally the famous dead.”2 Later, he pauses during one his letters: He …