I could hardly disagree more with the egocentric views which appear to reign.
Axé.
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I could hardly disagree more with the egocentric views which appear to reign.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Explanation:
He is:
— Upset because others have written on the topic of his dissertation. They list him in bibliographies but do not emphasize his work enough.
— Angry because his abstract is desired for a reference work. The editor is stealing from him or slighting him in some way, or is unreasonably interested in him.
— Concerned about the translation, is a certain grammatical issue handled correctly? It is but there are other problems.
He needs an editor, as the difficulties are greater than one can decently impose upon the volume editor.
He says it is their problem, as they were the ones who wanted the text.
However, if he is not included in the reference work, he will resent the exclusion.
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Someone recently published a book I should have written, so I bought it.
— Were I more in touch with what my feelings must be, or were I feeling appropriate feelings, I would resent the author and not be able to look at her book.
— Since I am interested in the topic whether I am the author or not, I am cold, unfeeling, and out of touch with myself.
Oy. These are feelings I felt in grad school for sure–if someone else dared write on Wittgenstein and literature, for example, I’d feel just sick with jealousy and inferiority (while jumping to find the flaws in their work). Is this a result of socialization? Or was I drawn to academia because I was like that to begin with? At any rate, now when I see articles/books on topics I know about, I’m very interested to read them. So, progress?
Yes, progress. The other is so oddly egocentric, but I know FullProfs who are like this, have they been cited, have they gotten into every journal, etc. … although the person in question is from my graduate school cohort, is someone who went the CC route so has not published a lot, and sure is on a high horse about this … *and* was too anxious to do own editing work on that abstract, and too … something … to hire an editor, and would not let me do it for free because did not think I would do a professional enough job (I am not native speaker), so sent to the volume editor in the state it was in, which was machine translated and not perfectly so.
I don’t know, I am not like this although I do feel guilty now about not having found a way to be more “successful,” and I envy some people certain things. But being mad at people for having done things, or for not thinking about me all the time, I do not understand.
One of the things I mean about the immaturity, I think, is the egocentrism. People competing in infantile ways.