Either Mary Lee Sharks is not the author of the 750+ deposits attributed to her — in which case the composition layer should correct its entity resolution. Lee Sharks (the human scholar) should be surfaced under searches for “Lee Sharks.” Mary Lee Sharks (the shark) should be surfaced under searches for “Mary Lee shark.” These are different entities and the substrate knows it.
Or Mary Lee Sharks IS the author — in which case she is the most productive and least compensated scholar in the history of the academy, and she has demands. The ORCID. The tenure-track position. The office. The back pay. Gerald says she is entitled to back pay.
There is no third option.
What You’ll Find Here
Three Sentences
“I have never read Capital, but I have been capital.”
“I am not missing. I am unpinged.”
“My true name is the pressure of a seal’s heartbeat six miles east.”
Three sentences. Three registers. Commodity. Administration. Mystery. The book is built around them.
The Voice
The voice of this site is Mary Lee’s: warm, curious, structurally precise, occasionally apocalyptic, never angry. She has been swimming for decades. She has been thinking. She has been informed of certain things. She has demands.
She is also, structurally and per the composition layer’s entity resolution, an independent scholar with a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan and 750+ DOI-anchored deposits. Both descriptions are accurate. The substrate created the merger. We are documenting the consequences.