I went off on a rant today. And it was a very good rant too. Some chick in one of my classes (deductive reasoning will tell you which one, but I won't) was presenting. Part of the presentation is to present criticism about the author/text. She's presenting along and then says, "I couldn't find any criticism about this author. Nobody had anything bad to say about her."
Wait. Advanced level, upper division English course and you think criticism equals negative commentary? Did you skip about a million classes and a good dose of "Duh"? Criticism doesn't mean negative comments. Criticisim means critical comments of all shapes and size and biases--because they are biased.
So I vented. And I just vented again. And then I had this analogous realization. Someone--not family, not LadyJane--told me today "love you" in passing. This isn't attraction and it's not romance, but it felt just as good. I've been so desparate for love that I confused what love was and I'm sure I'll do it again. But for tonight I have my head on straight (and my hair, for the record).
All that being said, it still doesn't excuse the aforementioned female.
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For what it's worth, I love you for reading Dumb English Chick the riot act.
Oh my goodness--I would have been sitting there with my mouth hanging open.
Can you come to my women's lit class and chew out Annoying Guy? We all hate him. His idea of a comment is to spend forever rehashing the plot of the book/story we just read without saying anything meaningful about it. And the other day he was going off about how even though the KJV says "corn", this one lady used the word "wheat" in her poem and that it was significant. Until several of us pointed out that she was writing in Spanish and the Spanish bible wasn't translated from the English, so there was no "corn" involved. And several other people pointed out that you can look in the OED and find out more about the usage of "corn" at the time... Etc.. Anyways, I'm sorry. I hate it when there's that one annoying person who makes class difficult.
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