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Otters put away their toys.

"Richard Slotkin, in his Bancroft Prize-winning study of the American frontier myth, argues that the captivity narrative did not just function as propaganda aimed at Native people. It functioned as self-absolution." —Renee Stonebraker via

Whence & Whither?

"...academics in permanent roles are like faraway stars, whose light takes years to reach us on earth. Looking at them, you’re looking into the past."