Hot Wax

From Wax Banks (an old post found while trawling the web looking for conferences I might be able to participate in):

I think I have it in me to do really good scholarly work; I don't know that I could do the dance necessary to be big in what was and in some vague sense ever will be 'my field.' Which realization only increases my admiration for people who (to my mind) stay creative and committed and sane in academia without uncritically buying into the enabling fantasies of the field-at-the-moment.

Me too.