I don’t understand Duke University. At a ceremony reading out the names of victims of genocide, this Blue Devil got into the act. Maybe the strangest thing I’ve seen in a spell, it was, I’m sure, meant as an act of piety at this sports besotted university.
Don’t dis the Devil, man.
no way, those Dukies are fanatic!
Can we understand it as a collision of affects? The Blue Devil suggests playfulness–both as an icon of the sports world and because he’s a cartoon character–and that, to me, feels desperately out of place in a space of mourning.
Maybe for Duke folks the Blue Devil is exactly that solemn and so writing “Never Forget” on his forehead and having him officiate works? (I’m half-serious.)
no, i agree with you. i too think it’s a pious gesture.