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I don't know why, but I kind of feel that if Bakhtin had
ever, even one time, walked into a bar and knowingly said, "Hey, bartender…"
it would have somehow, in a dialogical way, redeemed every bad joke my father
ever told. Then again, maybe I'm
just reading too much theory.