Somebody who has visited Hungary once and doesn’t speak the language has been given a few thousand words in the NYRB to be an expert on Hungarian history and politics.
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The combination of congenital self-confidence and a really pushy agent is hard to beat.
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I’ve spent half my life reading it and am not arrogant to claim to be an expert (including four modules including this one https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/urban/ …) absolutely wild, unbridled arrogance
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Oh man, all those people who thought Ulysses was just part of their cultural patrimony because they were posh Brits who went to Oxbridge, and had to be defended at all costs against interlopers like Corbyn. They had no idea how much they were telling on themselves.
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As a middle-class Dubliner who went to a Jesuit school and then UCD, it was the first time I ever felt like bellyaching about cultural appropriation.
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