My name is Jim Brown. I'm a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Texas, specializing in Digital Literacies and Literatures. I maintain four blogs, and you can see all of my blog writings by viewing this RSS feed. The name of this blog is explained in this post from January 2008.

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I hope (and assume), for the sake of less hokeyness, Linda was being a little bit smart-ass (who, Linda?) and said this with a wry smile. Not that there isn't some truth to her claim, and not that we don't believe it with the appropriate caveats and self-ironizing. But we (rhetoricians, I mean) try not to say it very often with any measure of earnestness.