Who Said Cite-Checking Is No Fun?: A Post For Ann
Consider this my dedication to Ann's long-anticipated and very welcomed membership on this fast-growing blog.
A bit of backstory: in the first few weeks of school, it seemed that every time I ran into Ann (read: interrupted her in mid-conversation), she was talking about sex. Since then, it has become a running joke that she should start talking about sex whenever I approach.
So when I came across this quotation while cite-checking an article for the international law journal, I knew I had found the perfect way to welcome Ann to the blog. With a vaguely sexual comment, taken wholly out of context:
"In a formulation that may strike some as appropriate even outside the realm of evolutionary biology, one author states: 'The problem of sex is still more or less unsolved.'"
Dear readers, I ask you simply to reflect on that last statement for a few moments. Take your time. Has one sentence ever been possessed of such nuanced and multifarious meaning?
"The problem of sex is still more or less unsolved."
A bit of backstory: in the first few weeks of school, it seemed that every time I ran into Ann (read: interrupted her in mid-conversation), she was talking about sex. Since then, it has become a running joke that she should start talking about sex whenever I approach.
So when I came across this quotation while cite-checking an article for the international law journal, I knew I had found the perfect way to welcome Ann to the blog. With a vaguely sexual comment, taken wholly out of context:
"In a formulation that may strike some as appropriate even outside the realm of evolutionary biology, one author states: 'The problem of sex is still more or less unsolved.'"
Dear readers, I ask you simply to reflect on that last statement for a few moments. Take your time. Has one sentence ever been possessed of such nuanced and multifarious meaning?
"The problem of sex is still more or less unsolved."
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