Too bad. I thought I was out of this.
Okay then, we will be metafictional and posthuman, we will spout pseudo-philosophy disguised as aesthetic principles, we will write long, long sentences with big, big words and will reify everything in sight. Our training will give us the right to look down on other people's tastes, and we will be very firm about the kind of non-entertaining reading they should be doing.
Do you think literary scholars have the right to tell others what
they should read?