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[...Why Chris Back Sucks...]
i'm feeling cynical and impatient. one of the women in my presentation group is a complete moron. she's in her 50s and functions like a one-celled organism. I swear that woman wouldn't know symbolism if it bit her in the ass.
she went through the book we're presenting on and made an outline with page numbers of what she thought was important.
and one of the notes was just "p. 211, coxcomb" when i asked her what the fuck she meant (since it wasn't a key focus of the novel and i had no idea why there was a note on this word...) she said "Oh...well in this novel so and so calls so and so a coxcomb, and in the other novel we read the other guy calls the other guy a coxcomb too. i thought we could make a parallel."
And I was like...hmm...
NO.
since they're entirely different contexts and the intention of the author was different for each one.
NO.
Using the same word in two different books does not constiute a parallel or an overarching theme.
sorry. you suck.
it's like, if I call you [her] moron, and I call my ex-bf a moron, i'm not making a comparison b/w you two, and you're morons for entirely different reasons. it's just a word.
and it was common at the time these novels were written.
you're wrong.
erase that right now.
but i said it nicer.
she just sucks so much.
and she doesn't listen. it's in one ear out the other. you have to tell her things 6 times before she'll remember it.
for example: in my other class she's also in my performance group and she as Horatio in the last scene of Hamlet.
And after Hamlet kills the king and falls down to die Horatio's like "No! If you die I'm going to drink the last of this poisoned wine and kill myself" and Hamlet's like "NO! give me the cup!" and Chris (the dumbass lady's name) didn't understand that it was the same cup and offered no less than 7 times to bring in a water bottle to use as the wine Hamlet asks for.
we told her like...a million times...NO...you take THAT cup...not a different one.
and then when sitting in class, the day of the performance, watching the prof give notes to the group that went before us...
the prof said: now, the gravedigger asked for a drink of mead, but you took an empty closed Snapple bottle and pretend to drink. It would've worked better to have put iced tea in there and actually taken off the lid...just for effect.
And Chris turns to us and was like, "OOH, maybe we can use my water bottle after all"
and we were all like...in unison...shouting NO!!! :
IT'S THE SAME FREAKING CUP THE KING PUTS THE POISON IN!
YOU TAKE IT FROM THE FLOOR BY THE KING'S BODY!
DAMNIT!
As Kara says: oh the poor thing is so simple.
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