>go to a lecture by some english professor >he unironically

I might be your professor but I can still browse reddit and keep up with the hip trends !

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>every day I go to class Trump is bashed incessantly
this is america now and people won't respect the presidency as much in the future.

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>>9149600
>implying the right to criticize the executive isn't one of the pillars of American society

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>>9149009
>tfw as time goes on this will become more and more common.

I bet you felt really good about yourself, sitting all smug there in your student seat, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are more intelligent and have better taste than that guy because his favorite book is one that anonymous people on the internet have told you is not the objective greatest book of all time. Bully for you, anon!

>not The Bible

>>9149600
>implying trump hasn't made a mockery of the office
I bet you probably call yourself *conservative* too

>>9149606
there is nothing american about the ability to openly criticize the executive. It was done in ancient Greece and probably earlier

>>9149606
Nobody said they don't have the right to, but that doesn't make the speech valuable or necessary

>>9149009
The problem with this statement is that it implies he hasn't read the pale king and loves IJ or has read the pale king and still thinks IJ is better. Oblivion is still better than both though

wait... i thought we wrote infinite jest. now i google it. it's an actual book??

Do English professors really say what their favorite books are? I had to take a few English classes but in none of them did anyone talk about favorites, at best they would say that they liked a book if it was brought up.

>>9149009
There was a copy on my psychiatrist's desk. Time to find a new psychiatrist?

>>9149703
figuring out a prof's favorite is through tracking down their dissertations. My favorite prof's favorite authors were Hammett and Burroughs