In Which There Is No Off Switch For Caution (A Retitled Repost)

Sometimes, youre thinking about a thing because of life circumstances and all (in this case, teaching feminist critical literary theory to a class last week), and you feel like maybe you should go write it all down and figure it all out somehow And then you stumble across something that makes you realise, actually, youve done this all before.

(I do this when Im writing, too; Ill have an epiphany about something that a particular scene needs, and will go back to add it in, only to discover it...