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• I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de… — Harry Frankfurt
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• When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass

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