when louise brooks said “how I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. and I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart”
good side: i’ve gotten my toughest class to willingly do some spoken latin at the beginning of class
bad side: this is mostly because i taught them how to say “i want to die” and now they won’t stop saying it every time i ask them how they are in latin
It’s comforting to know that Latin students are universally snarky.
In fairness teaching high school Latin isn’t much different.
How is it said op. This is important
I think it’s Volo Morire but it’s been a while so im not sure if Morire has to be changed to something
you’re close! the word for “to die” is deponent so it has a passive form, so it would be “mori volo”
me: haha oh god this is so bad im making so many unsupported claims and pulling all this analysis out of my ass
my prof in the margins: excellent analysis!
me:
when i was in high school i used to write my papers thinking wow i’m just bullshitting all of this. then like a week before my senior year ended after all the grades were set, i was talking to my english teacher and told him you know i just bullshitted every paper i wrote. he told me that while i may have thought i was just pulling it all out of my ass, i genuinely knew what i was talking about and made well-supported analyses. i only thought i was bullshitting because it didn’t take much effort and it all seemed obvious to me. if you do well on your essays even though you think you’re just making it up as you go, chances are you’re not pulling it out of your ass. you’re just a genuinely talented analyst, even if the analysis that you’re making comes from a subconscious understanding of the material rather than a conscious effort to study it. give yourself some credit.
