Duolingo; a party game; a legend dies

Karin’s Duolingo streak has surpassed 1300 days. That’s longer than 3½ years. It antedates our second-to-last address change. It antedates Samuel.

I am impressed.

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A party game. Guess which dour philosopher wrote the following.
Ten years ago I was awarded a year-long fellowship at the Humanities Institute of the University of Michigan to pursue research into narrative and its relevance to the value of a good life. I began reading the vast literature on narrative, and by the end of the first semester I was utterly lost. I decided to work on a different project, so as to have something to show for the year. This paper is an effort to make good on the project that the Institute funded; I have no illusions of its having been worth the wait.
And yet the paper (“Narrative Explanation”) was published in The Philosophical Review.

It is fitting that the philosopher should have provided a “narrative explanation” of how the paper came to be written, and of its likely deficiencies.

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R.I.P. Richard Belzer, best known as Detective John Munch of Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and other shows, e.g. Sesame Street and The X-Files. According to ranker.com, Munch is the second-best detective in the Law & Order “universe”:
Your classic … paranoid, misanthropic detective. He thrives off conspiracy theories, and a new ex-wife of his seems to pop up every other season. Munch is a huge advocate for the mentally ill, as several of his ex-wives and family members have suffered from mental disorders.
He (Munch, anyway) was a sweetheart.