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Seven of the Greatest Farts in Western Literature

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I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I spent the bulk of my twenties in various English programs writing papers with titles like “Metonymy and Violent Signifiers in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend” and “The Floating Phallus and the Signification of Gender in Wuthering Heights.” As you may have guessed, these papers bear more than a whiff of theoretical garbage. And while I don’t regret having studied literature for many years, I do regret the focus of those years.
Instead of reading for language I

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