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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 11h

@carcanet.bsky.social congratulations, Jorie! @joriegraham.bsky.social

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 23h

Celebrity Traitors UK Season 1 is a PERFECT example of Han Feizi’s Legalism

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lil’ miso honey salmon over scallion rice plus kimchi and chili crisp, w/ roasted brussels sprouts in a balsamic reduction on the side

Broiled miso honey salmon plus kimchi, chili crisp, and roasted brussels sprouts over scallion rice

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Got up. Got dressed. Still sick as a dog, but this research statement ain’t gonna write itself

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gee, I just love curriculum planning dreams.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maria Ressa spoke at my PhD graduation, and I can tell you she deserves this.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are days - especially in the summer and fall - that I really wish I just lived in Presque Isle.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sick-day reading is a new book by a friend and esteemed former colleague at BU. I love how she frames her subject as Arab writers’ interactions with/appropriations of Soviet culture, instead of as Soviet “penetration” of Arab imaginaries. It enlivens the scholarship, makes it human.

“Red Mecca: The Life and Afterlives of the Arab-Soviet Romance” by Margaret Litvin

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, Gen AI can neither “do” nor “make” Art, which is both process and object at once.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wait until he finds out about oral storytelling traditions - the OG video games

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Running errands on Ninth Street, and in the spirit of birthday-week briefly wandered into The Regulator. And without fail, there were both anticipated finds and unexpected treasures. If you’re new to Durham, NC - definitely pay a visit to our local independent bookstore, The Regulator Bookshop!

A small pile of books:

Charles Dickens, “The Signal Man” because the Eris Books series of slender gems is lovely - plus, our Rail-Tracks project!

Wisława Szymborska, The Acrobat Ecco - Do you not own multiple collections of her poems, in multiple translations?? One might reasonably ask. One might, but see “birthday-week” above.

Sarah Minor, Carousel: An Essay On Seeing Yale University Press

Sophie Calle, Catalogue Raisonné of the Unfinished Actes Sud

R F Kuang, Taipei Story William Morrow - for a book review I agreed to write…

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Text conversations in Spanish with Spanish-speaking friends have shown me how difficult it is to explain misunderstanding. “This is how I misread you based on what I’m used to, and this is what I now surmise you really meant. No?”

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The human desire to be together is so universal and so strong that it will get us through the big problems.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh dang - just got word that my second translated book, Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei, is getting reprinted by NYRB Classics Series!

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I got a homemade moon cake 🥮 from a former student 🤩 中秋快樂！

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Make Jack Smith the next Attorney General.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My graduation present - which I asked for at 20 years old - was a Harris tweed, which should tell you something about who I really am

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Highlights not pictured here include Thomas Hardy’s chair (which you are NOT supposed to sit in…while librarians are watching) and Edwin Arlington Robinson’s glasses.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading Du Fu in class, feeling all his empathetic feels for common people ravaged by war. Grab an annotated Du Fu from Shannon and flip around, first line is 羯胡腥四海 “The barbarians’ mutton-reek fills the land.” 😳

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I will never, ever not be chilled by the line “and the crack in the teacup opens/a lane to the land of the dead.”

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meanwhile, Shuǐ hú’er zhuàn is written 水和兒傳 and tells the story of a multiple murder at a kitchen table after a really disappointing mahjong mishap

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oooo I would argue that 西遊記兒 is about one frantic taxi ride to 牛街 to get lamb kebabs before the good restaurant closes

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is, of course, another group of people who famously do this ad nauseam. They wear a lot of maroon.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are come in my EA Cultures class to the week on Legalism, aka “Wink Wink Nudge Nudge Do You Recognize This” week.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When you order 5 bones but Mission gives you 10 because “we’ve just got a little extra.” If I die, please find strong people to carry me out.

A plate of ribs, green beans, cornbread, and caramel pudding.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why is my Quora algorithm dominated by questions about prison life?

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Five thousand years of unbroken cultural history, obvs

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How does the New York Times editorial board manage to remain both unnecessarily straitlaced AND totally extra at the same time?

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Heck yes! See everyone back in my favorite town this coming March! #aas2027

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“But, but, but—l’etát c’est moi!” protested Louis XIV, as sewage erupted from every toilet at Versailles and the room collapsed around him

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Millennial: I didn’t know Jupiter was made of glass

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Literally the only upside to a 400-mile weekly commute

Brisket, collard greens, cornbread, and caramel pudding with an Arnold Palmer at Mission BBQ

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sheesh I put down this snarky post and walk off to teach my classes, and I come back to a grown-ass thread about Calvon & Hobbes in Chinese

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have plenty of food-related gripes, but my most central food *opinion* is, “Double the sauce, double the garlic.”

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hmmm. How about I insinuate what I think via this 50-act play in which I look into a mirror, then step into the mirror, then **gasp** STEP BACK OUT AGAIN Followed by performative suicide so you know I’m serious Snarky colophon to be appended by @bokane.org

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I taught three classes today, then pushed through brain-death to do two hours of grading. And you know what? I really like this fit, so I’m going to Maggie’s for a drink and some pot pie. This day has knocked in its brass nail.

A middle-aged, balding white dude in a brown sueded linen suit from The Anthology in Taipei.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My niece just hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in exactly six months. (For comparison: I have spent the entire afternoon fighting one page of a cover letter.)

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know, I know, the smoke alarm in this kitchen is “supposed to work.” But being able to toast a croissant the way I like it without having to evacuate under an air-raid siren is so nice.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sigh. I see I logged on in the middle of another “China never did real imperialism” discourse. *logs back off*

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