Comments on: From the Archives https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/05/31/from-the-archives-3/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:13:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Ken Ashe https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/05/31/from-the-archives-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9376 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:13:38 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1980#comment-9376 That’s really interesting. The author must have enjoyed writing those. I’m sure that it made a mundane job much more interesting. I wonder if they would start each meeting by reading the summary of the prior one.

]]> By: NickS https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2012/05/31/from-the-archives-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9283 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:59:03 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1980#comment-9283 That’s great. Funny, but also just curious.

It certainly invited speculation about the state of mind of the person writing them — a frustrated novelist spinning fancies, or somebody who realized that adding color was the only way to get the president to pay attention.

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