TTPYO: I'm reading an academic 'debate' where 2 critics call each other names in long journal articles published at yearly intervals. One basically called the other a racist for saying that Chinese and Indian people couldn't comment on West Indian literature, he responded with ten pages of insanity using a dozen different fonts in as many different sizes, occasionally writing in all capitals, skipping out letters, using abbreviations, slipping into slang and accusing the original academic of playing Prospero to his Caliban (for interpreting his words exactly as he intended them). All an attempt to subvert the imperialist language white people use to talk about West Indian literature, but it makes him look like a complete and utter wanker. If that had appeared online rather than in Wasafiri he'd have been banned from the Monty Python forum, but because he's an academic we all have to revere his batshit insane outbursts. Ugh.
