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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.