academia, n.All

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love — close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

Academia is the study of the passion-stains on the bedsheets of the orgasm of poetry.

Academia is marked by viscious university politics precisely because the stakes are so small.

Academia is legitimized voyeurism, providing one with psychological as well as ideological distance from the subject of one's research.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Academia is composed largely of supply- rather than demand-oriented research

Academia is only useful when trying to be useless and dangerous when trying to be useful.

Academia is a domain in which a subject, as soon as it becomes totally obsolete, is made into a required course.