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The Devil's Work
Dec. 21st, 2009 12:35 pmSo ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mirrorthaw and I have been joking for a while about this Ph.D. in early American history I'm apparently pursuing in my spare time*, and this morning I realized that I could submit a thesis proposal by January 1st if I needed to. Which, THANK GOODNESS, I don't. Also, ironically, I think it'd be a pretty good book--better in many ways than my actual thesis. Hypothetical title: The Devil's Work: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.
( click for outline )
So, yeah. I could write this book. I'd even kind of enjoy it. But there is NO WAY IN HELL I'm going back to school, so unless some publisher is crazy enough to want to pay me for it, it shall remain, as it is now, hypothetical vaporware. (Yes, that's a tautology. I'm kind of fond of it.)
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*Despite all the reading about Nazis, I'll never be more than a dilettante in the history of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, because I can't read German (or Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, etc. etc. etc.). Had I But Known, I would have taken German in high school, but I didn't know--and there would have to be some pretty radical changes in my life and my goals for me to take it up now.
mirrorthaw and I have been joking for a while about this Ph.D. in early American history I'm apparently pursuing in my spare time*, and this morning I realized that I could submit a thesis proposal by January 1st if I needed to. Which, THANK GOODNESS, I don't. Also, ironically, I think it'd be a pretty good book--better in many ways than my actual thesis. Hypothetical title: The Devil's Work: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.( click for outline )
So, yeah. I could write this book. I'd even kind of enjoy it. But there is NO WAY IN HELL I'm going back to school, so unless some publisher is crazy enough to want to pay me for it, it shall remain, as it is now, hypothetical vaporware. (Yes, that's a tautology. I'm kind of fond of it.)
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*Despite all the reading about Nazis, I'll never be more than a dilettante in the history of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, because I can't read German (or Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, etc. etc. etc.). Had I But Known, I would have taken German in high school, but I didn't know--and there would have to be some pretty radical changes in my life and my goals for me to take it up now.
