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“And Fred said:
l think he’s in some kind of pain. I think it’s a pain cry.
And I said: “Pain cry?
Then lan­guage is a virus.”

As it hap­pens, I already do get free “Calls for Papers”, and news related to my field of research, and way too much infor­ma­tion about jour­nals whose pub­lish­ers I dis­like on prin­ci­ple, and there are no prod­ucts in my field of research. I get that. I get that, and I hope that my col­leagues out there stuck in the Acad­emy get theirs the same way I do: direct from the con­tent pro­duc­ers, not through some inter­me­di­ary like you folks.

Next will come the cry­ing and beg­ging, won’t it? Or is it the threats? I can never keep those straight.