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Alibey1917 Posted 5 years ago
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We will club our books into submission

"Every time I sit down to write, I remember lessons from my friends at the Berkman Klein Center’s book club: Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Judith Donath, Eszter Hargittai, Colin Maclay, Christian Sandvig, Wendy Seltzer, Rey Junco, Lokman Tsui, and Zeynep Tufekci. Together, we will club our books into submission." (Ethan Zuckerman, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith In Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them, "Acknowledgments")


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alibey1917 What does the emphasized phrase exactly? I think you left out a word. I have to guess that "Together, we will club our books into submission" is the slogan of the book club, involving a pun on "club".

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  • alibey1917 What does the emphasized phrase exactly?
  • I think you left out a word.
  • I have to guess that "Together, we will club our books into submission" is the slogan of the book club, involving a pun on "club".
  • They attack their books and achieve mastery.
  • I tried to find it on the Harvard site, but no dice.
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alibey1917What does the emphasized phrase exactly?

I think you left out a word.

I have to guess that "Together, we will club our books into submission" is the slogan of the book club, involving a pun on "club". They attack their books and achieve mastery.

I tried to find it on the Harvard site, but no dice. A regular book club reads books and di

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alibey1917Together, we will club our books into submission."

It is a double pun on the words "club" and "submission"

club =

1. a group of people that meet together regularly for a purpose. (e.g. a stamp collectors club, and antique automobile club, a fan club, a book club, a writer's club"

2. a verb meaning to beat with a big stick

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