Annotated Book Portrait Gone Wrong

wtf this is the last time I buy an annotated book on ebay Wednesday, May 18 When I went in to teach class, I finally felt that something might happen, that the political system I’d grown up with, which had been showing cracks for so long, might suddenly explode. I don’t know exactly where the feeling came from. Maybe it was the attitude of my grad students: even the most apathetic and apolitical looked tense, anxious. They were obviously searching their smartphones and tablets for any news they could find. At least, they were even more checked out than usual. It may also have been the way the girls in burkas carried themselves. They moved slowly and with new confidence, walking down the very middle of the hallway, three by three, as if they were already in charge. I was equally struck by my colleagues’ lack of concern. They seemed completely unworried, as if none of this had anything to do with them. It only confirmed what I’d always thought—that, for all their education, university professors can’t even imagine political developments having any effect on them.

На фотографии раскрытая книга с серьёзным политическим текстом, поверх которого кто-то нарисовал грубый портрет человека в очках и с сердитым выражением лица. Подпись говорит, что это последняя покупка аннотированной книги на eBay. Шутка в неожиданном и абсурдном «комментарии» к книге: вместо обычных заметок предыдущий владелец испортил страницу странным рисунком.

• @right_wing_dev_squads / 13268 2025-11-08