I would describe the humanities as studies and practices relating to the human experience, past and present, where the work is done through studying and understanding human interest. It is not black and white and disregards structures such as formulas and binaries. During’s article makes me feel as though I have no idea what the humanities are. To put it bluntly, I found his writing to be inaccessible and pretentious. Even after reading the text multiple times, I took very little from it. The one thing I did take away was that he believes that “we must allow that the humanities can potentially focus on anything at all: things, texts, actions, performances, natural forces, individuals, animals, concepts, artwork, moods, money, belief, social structures, and so on” (During). This I agree with, as I feel it speaks to my earlier comment that the humanities are the study, recording, and expansion of the human experience. My understanding of During’s ‘project’ is nonexistent, as again, I found his writing to be muddled and ostentatious. I did, however, find one connection between Harris’s commentary on page 25 and During’s overall argument. Harris, while discussing the way authors choose to use language, said that one way an author can subtly add additional commentary regarding another author’s work is by deciding “to what degree you want to make the difference between their language and yours visible on the page” (Harris p.25). I found this interesting while reading During because During, continuing on with his superiority complex, barely used any other author’s voice in his text despite citing numerous sources. In one instance, we see him use only five words from one author, paraphrasing the rest himself: “As Bernard Williams suggested in Truth and Truthfulness (2002), they are committed to secular truthfulness, defined as ‘respect for the truth’ enacted in the ‘virtues’ of accuracy and sincerity.” Considering Harris’s statement in the context of During usurping others’ voices while attempting to amplify his own, I am left feeling as though During is even more pretentious than I had before.