shoutout to this specific XKCD comic I remember whenever I think about this. last panel is a beautifully-blended hybrid of my two above-described types of analysis parody STEM people will write "literary deconstruction tends to reflect on the analyst's worldview" and think it's a revolutionary take
![XKCD comic. Transcript from explainxkcd.com: [Caption above the panels:] My Hobby: Sitting down with grad students and timing how long it takes them to figure out that I'm not actually an expert in their field. [For all four panels below, there are two frames crossing the border of each panel. The ones at the top left have a caption, and the one below right has the result of the timing.] [Ponytail and Cueball are sitting across from each other in office chairs.] Engineering: Ponytail: Our big problem is heat dissipation Cueball: Have you tried logarithms? 48 seconds [Cueball is sitting in a chair at the center of a table looking left at another Cueball-like guy. To the right is a long black-haired girl.] Linguistics: Cueball: Ah, so does this Finno-Ugric family include, say, Klingon? 63 seconds [Cueball is standing with his hands up talking to another Cueball-like guy and Megan who has lifted her arm to palm her face.] Sociology: Cueball: Yeah, my latest work is on ranking people from best to worst. 4 minutes [Cueball is sitting in an armchair with another Cueball-like guy sitting attentively in front of him on the floor.] Literary Criticism: Cueball: You see, the deconstruction is inextricable from not only the text, but also the self. Eight papers and two books and they haven't caught on.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:azdmczf2jltronsb5xpkuunk/bafkreid7lseb2kjlzmnjb27ux5y6tx2e5qabgy7ig7bgiaghqywwsjux5u@jpeg)