By: Wes
Apparently getting a PhD is like trying to impregnate the nothingness beyond the periphery of a vast epistemological cosmos with … a multi-colored logo-phallus.
The PhD, Visualized
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#1 by waltonky on August 10, 2010 - 8:49 pm
You know, at first I thought it was going to be a breast.
#2 by MemeGene on August 10, 2010 - 9:14 pm
It looks more like the sperm is trying to escape the ovum of Generality. Got spooked by the overly large ribosomes?
#3 by Wes Alwan on August 10, 2010 - 10:02 pm
@MemeGene — superb; something like that occurred to me, but I would never have been able to articulate it so well. @waltonky — that’s very pre-oedipal of you.