This was my talk and Q&A at the Environmental Humanities symposium at UNSW yesterday. Thanks so much to Thom Dooreen and Deborah Rose for being so awesome.
When I studied Sophocles in college in 2001, my professor pointed out how weird the Oedipus story was. He wrote the letters WYRD on the board and said that the word weird comes from the this Old English word WYRD, which is the word for fate. "Fate is pretty weird" said Dr. Schneider.
Have you taken account of this etymology of weirdness?
When I studied Sophocles in college in 2001, my professor pointed out how weird the Oedipus story was. He wrote the letters WYRD on the board and said that the word weird comes from the this Old English word WYRD, which is the word for fate. "Fate is pretty weird" said Dr. Schneider.
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