One of the best responses I’ve heard to the common question at academic social gatherings, "What do you work on?": “Right now, I am occupied chiefly with the fable, the poetic view of history, and the architectonics of the skies, especially our nation’s.” – Friedrich Hölderlin, letter to Leo von Seckendorf, 12 March 1804. (Epigraph to Jennifer Bajorek’s fine article, “The Offices of Homeland Security, or, Hölderlin’s Terrorism” Critical Inquiry 31 / Summer 2005.)
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