Darren Dyck
@darrendyck.bsky.social
English Prof. Likes words, phrases, sentences. Barely serious.
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Darren Dyck
@darrendyck.bsky.social
· Feb 15
I don't like to blow my own horn (unironically, anyway), and this is the last time I'll push my book on here (I promise), but I've been rereading what I wrote, and some of it is pretty not terrible actually. I think the one real virtue of my approach ...
A choice of ontological significance at the thrift store, eh @adamroberts.bsky.social?
September 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A choice of ontological significance at the thrift store, eh @adamroberts.bsky.social?
my days vs my evenings rn
May 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
my days vs my evenings rn
Me right now reading final exams that confuse symbolism and figurative language.
Someday I'll just die from nerd rage while explaining, "No, this thing is not that other thing. Of course they're related, but they're also different, think the two thoughts together! (dies)"
May 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Me right now reading final exams that confuse symbolism and figurative language.
best tweet
cardinal pizzaballa is not gonna keep his name if he becomes pope. they have to pick a new name. it's gonna be something normal like papa john.
April 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
best tweet
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borrowing from a canticle for leibowitz but it’s the great simplification
Historians will propose in due course a name for this current phase we are witnessing in the United States. My early submission: The Great Dismantling.
April 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
borrowing from a canticle for leibowitz but it’s the great simplification
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Fair warning: If it even looks like AI art I will not engage. Likely I will block - and pray the block sends the image straight to hell.
December 19, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Fair warning: If it even looks like AI art I will not engage. Likely I will block - and pray the block sends the image straight to hell.
Two very different books arrived in the mail today.
March 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Two very different books arrived in the mail today.
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Cardinals in the snow
February 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Cardinals in the snow
I don't like to blow my own horn (unironically, anyway), and this is the last time I'll push my book on here (I promise), but I've been rereading what I wrote, and some of it is pretty not terrible actually. I think the one real virtue of my approach ...
February 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I don't like to blow my own horn (unironically, anyway), and this is the last time I'll push my book on here (I promise), but I've been rereading what I wrote, and some of it is pretty not terrible actually. I think the one real virtue of my approach ...
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Next up … #Dostoevsky #BrothersKaramazov
January 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Next up … #Dostoevsky #BrothersKaramazov
I feel like some of you wield a little too much influence in my reading selections.
January 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I feel like some of you wield a little too much influence in my reading selections.
This is a good list, but if I read all these writers every time they write something I’d never have time to read any books!—most notably, of course, Adam Roberts’ books.
December 26, 2024 at 2:34 PM
This is a good list, but if I read all these writers every time they write something I’d never have time to read any books!—most notably, of course, Adam Roberts’ books.
It’s a little early to be posting this, but I know a lot of you are going to need some time to habituate yourself to the thought that this is the best O Holy Night going.
youtu.be/7PdZGY_JDnQ?...
youtu.be/7PdZGY_JDnQ?...
Ben Caplan - O Holy Night
YouTube video by Ben Caplan
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December 5, 2024 at 4:05 PM
It’s a little early to be posting this, but I know a lot of you are going to need some time to habituate yourself to the thought that this is the best O Holy Night going.
youtu.be/7PdZGY_JDnQ?...
youtu.be/7PdZGY_JDnQ?...
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December 3, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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You guys, I was teaching the Aeneid today, and I mentioned how Vergil used condere as the verb for planting the sword in Turnus' chest and how the verb was used for founding a city in book one. One of my students then wrote in the chat eSTABlished. I am dead 💀. #classicsbluesky
December 3, 2024 at 12:36 AM
You guys, I was teaching the Aeneid today, and I mentioned how Vergil used condere as the verb for planting the sword in Turnus' chest and how the verb was used for founding a city in book one. One of my students then wrote in the chat eSTABlished. I am dead 💀. #classicsbluesky
Can anyone think of a good primary text that would be a compelling object of study for English, history, and religion majors? (If a literary text, something accessible that doesn't unfairly advantage the English majors.)
December 2, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Can anyone think of a good primary text that would be a compelling object of study for English, history, and religion majors? (If a literary text, something accessible that doesn't unfairly advantage the English majors.)