@ayjay This is just a microblog to note that a recent post of yours led me to the piece linked and its comments, one of which ended with a line that I have decided is going to be, from this moment forward, my universal rejoinder:
\n\n\n\n\nThis raises the question of how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight fits into all this.
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I mean, would it ever NOT work? It would always work.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/robinsloan/979525","date_published":"2018-10-22T04:08:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Robin Sloan","url":"https://www.robinsloan.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe77c79c2b122542882a072930a1701be%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"robinsloan"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-10-22 04:08","date_timestamp":1540181299,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"899463","content_html":"@ayjay It happens!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/robinsloan/899463","date_published":"2018-09-19T16:29:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Robin Sloan","url":"https://www.robinsloan.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe77c79c2b122542882a072930a1701be%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"robinsloan"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-09-19 16:29","date_timestamp":1537374576,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"899130","content_html":"@ayjay I loved reading this, as always, but it left me sincerely confused. Doesn't this:
\n\n\n\n\n> People who are deeply grounded in and deeply committed to their faith tradition who are also capable of rising to high levels of influence in government and education
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describe a solid majority of U.S. elected representatives? Is their \nprofessed faith of a kind or quality different from what you or Vermeule are imagining? Sincere question!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/robinsloan/899130","date_published":"2018-09-19T14:21:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Robin Sloan","url":"https://www.robinsloan.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe77c79c2b122542882a072930a1701be%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"robinsloan"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-09-19 14:21","date_timestamp":1537366874,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"883513","content_html":"@ayjay Eyyy this is good! \"…just a pattern-generating heater that I only understand because I share culture with the people who set it in motion\" 😳
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/robinsloan/883513","date_published":"2018-09-13T15:52:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Robin Sloan","url":"https://www.robinsloan.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe77c79c2b122542882a072930a1701be%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"robinsloan"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-09-13 15:52","date_timestamp":1536853945,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"841009","content_html":"@ayjay \"impermeable self-regard\" is an excellent phrase that I might or might not have just jotted down 👌
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/robinsloan/841009","date_published":"2018-08-30T00:30:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Robin Sloan","url":"https://www.robinsloan.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe77c79c2b122542882a072930a1701be%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"robinsloan"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-08-30 00:30","date_timestamp":1535589005,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"933113","content_html":"A paragraph from Alice Gregory, saved years ago:\n\n\n A truly radical 21st-century novelist wouldn’t ask us to see ourselves in made-up villains, and then, hopefully, revise our opinions of the real ones in our own lives. Rather, they would ask us to see the arduous and often acrobatic e... robinsloan.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://robinsloan.micro.blog/2018/08/18/a-paragraph-from.html","date_published":"2018-08-18T23:25:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Robin Sloan","url":"https://www.robinsloan.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fe77c79c2b122542882a072930a1701be%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"robinsloan"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-08-18 23:25","date_timestamp":1534634746,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"806881","content_html":"Literally just here to follow @ayjay 👋
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