No! No it is not! It is ugly and underheated and makes undergraduates jump through ridiculous hoops for the 99.9% of the collection which they are not even allowed take outside the library building once they finally get their hands on it! WE HATES IT.
But I am considerably more optimistic today, and I want to ring up a Professor Anthony Harvey and thank him for that, because he is a SEXY BEAST that writes about Goidelic lenition and Latinate consonantal gemination and the relationship betwixt in a way that MAKES SENSE and that I can UNDERSTAND and that is actually PRETTY INTERESTING.
(It is sad that finding an academic I can actually read is a capslock-worthy occasion.)
ETA: Though it probably doesn't help that a large chunk of yesterday was devoted to interminable tracts by this guy. Now I know: he's not only PART of mind-numbingly uninteresting and esoteric history, he WRITES it, too. And I have had to study both. God damn you, Eoin MacNeill. GTFO MY LIFE ALREADY.
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But I am considerably more optimistic today, and I want to ring up a Professor Anthony Harvey and thank him for that, because he is a SEXY BEAST that writes about Goidelic lenition and Latinate consonantal gemination and the relationship betwixt in a way that MAKES SENSE and that I can UNDERSTAND and that is actually PRETTY INTERESTING.
(It is sad that finding an academic I can actually read is a capslock-worthy occasion.)
ETA: Though it probably doesn't help that a large chunk of yesterday was devoted to interminable tracts by this guy. Now I know: he's not only PART of mind-numbingly uninteresting and esoteric history, he WRITES it, too. And I have had to study both. God damn you, Eoin MacNeill. GTFO MY LIFE ALREADY.