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Flat White

What’s woke this week?

5 August 2021

6:44 PM

5 August 2021

6:44 PM

I increasingly feel like I’m in the middle of that darkly satiric Edgar Allan Poe story, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether. In it the all-too-credulous narrator visits a mental institution where, unbeknown to him, the inmates have literally taken over the asylum – it’s the origin of the expression that we’re probably not supposed to use anymore.

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