I'm still an English professor. Shoot.

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Bruegels Fuckbooks: Sep 14, 2004; Now, listen - I know the two of you are very different from each other in a lot of ways, but you have to understand that as far as Grandpa's concerned, you're both pieces of shit! Yeah. I can prove it mathematically.

Not really a question but I want you to keep posting whatever crosses your mind because this is currently my favorite thread on SA.

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Bruegels Fuckbooks: Sep 14, 2004; Now, listen - I know the two of you are very different from each other in a lot of ways, but you have to understand that as far as Grandpa's concerned, you're both pieces of shit! Yeah. I can prove it mathematically.

Defenestration posted:

As far as authenticity, maybe you (royal you) just can't enjoy things as they are because you're a college professor and an intellectual. Academics spend a lot of time getting taught to sublimate the original work into a lot of convoluted secondary meaning (on a simple level, like when you said people get taught "Hamlet is about death.")

did you skip over all the Shakespeare discussion or what?

# ¿ May 9, 2009 16:54

Bruegels Fuckbooks: Sep 14, 2004; Now, listen - I know the two of you are very different from each other in a lot of ways, but you have to understand that as far as Grandpa's concerned, you're both pieces of shit! Yeah. I can prove it mathematically.

Brainworm posted:

Most of the time, bad writing by good students has real process problems rather than clear product problems -- that is, you get a solid piece of writing where there's a clear research gap or little improvement between drafts -- rather than a process-immaculate piece that I somehow intuit isn't up to a student's native abilities. So when I say I'll hit the best paper in the class with a B or lower, that's generally where it comes from; the product might be nice, but the process could be hosed.

I think I got hit with this hardcore but I didn't intuit that this was what was going on so I stopped taking English classes in college. "Extremely well written, but... B-."

# ¿ May 24, 2009 13:59

Bruegels Fuckbooks: Sep 14, 2004; Now, listen - I know the two of you are very different from each other in a lot of ways, but you have to understand that as far as Grandpa's concerned, you're both pieces of shit! Yeah. I can prove it mathematically.

modig posted:

I think I was so conditioned to expect this crap in English classes that I never even gave my college English classes a chance.

College english classes were like high school english classes with an even higher degree of bullshit in my experience. That's why I steered away from the major.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2009 13:33

Bruegels Fuckbooks: Sep 14, 2004; Now, listen - I know the two of you are very different from each other in a lot of ways, but you have to understand that as far as Grandpa's concerned, you're both pieces of shit! Yeah. I can prove it mathematically.

Brainworm posted:

The famous quote, "all those who love not tobacco and boys are fools," that's just smoke and minors. It was probably made up during Marlowe's indictment.

I laughed.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2009 02:06

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