Tag: gino’s soliloquy

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only literature students make friends by telling a classmate “i loved your analysis of this obscure book’s title yesterday, really impressive! wanna be friends?”

im so glad my analysis skills didnt completely vanish omg

Update: i just had a class about the history of french orthography and my inner 10 yo child obsessed with The Right Spelling In Every Word is living their absolute best life

(In middeschool i wanted to be a lexicologist lmao my dreams were…….. quite something)

We all got tricked by some 9th century Italian riddle can you imagine???? youre a fucking 9th century italian monk writing a quirky riddle and CENTURIES later college students are STILL pranked by your fucking riddle can you IMAGINE omg i love literature

Also ive decided not to be shy around girls anymore since, yknow, got nothing to lose anymore & i chatted a bit with a really pretty girl who is in several of my classes, cause life goes on, right

girls and books: im literally living The Ultimate Dream i wanted SO BADLY for my WHOLE LIFE this is so awesome

Also…….. s/o to those french monks from the 9th century who started to write (oral) french with the latin alphabet cause lmao it was 100% not adapted since half of the french sounds didnt exist in latin and therefore ended up writing things like “gié” for “je” – yall are the reason the french language is Written Like This

one the one hand, you were linguistic macgyvers and did your best with what you had

one the other hand, you’re hated by generations of french children & non-french speakers learning the language across the world

so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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only literature students make friends by telling a classmate “i loved your analysis of this obscure book’s title yesterday, really impressive! wanna be friends?”

im so glad my analysis skills didnt completely vanish omg

Update: i just had a class about the history of french orthography and my inner 10 yo child obsessed with The Right Spelling In Every Word is living their absolute best life

(In middeschool i wanted to be a lexicologist lmao my dreams were…….. quite something)

We all got tricked by some 9th century Italian riddle can you imagine???? youre a fucking 9th century italian monk writing a quirky riddle and CENTURIES later college students are STILL pranked by your fucking riddle can you IMAGINE omg i love literature

Also ive decided not to be shy around girls anymore since, yknow, got nothing to lose anymore & i chatted a bit with a really pretty girl who is in several of my classes, cause life goes on, right

epicene-street-light:

epicene-street-light:

only literature students make friends by telling a classmate “i loved your analysis of this obscure book’s title yesterday, really impressive! wanna be friends?”

im so glad my analysis skills didnt completely vanish omg

Update: i just had a class about the history of french orthography and my inner 10 yo child obsessed with The Right Spelling In Every Word is living their absolute best life

(In middeschool i wanted to be a lexicologist lmao my dreams were…….. quite something)

We all got tricked by some 9th century Italian riddle can you imagine???? youre a fucking 9th century italian monk writing a quirky riddle and CENTURIES later college students are STILL pranked by your fucking riddle can you IMAGINE omg i love literature

epicene-street-light:

only literature students make friends by telling a classmate “i loved your analysis of this obscure book’s title yesterday, really impressive! wanna be friends?”

im so glad my analysis skills didnt completely vanish omg

Update: i just had a class about the history of french orthography and my inner 10 yo child obsessed with The Right Spelling In Every Word is living their absolute best life

(In middeschool i wanted to be a lexicologist lmao my dreams were…….. quite something)

only literature students make friends by telling a classmate “i loved your analysis of this obscure book’s title yesterday, really impressive! wanna be friends?”

im so glad my analysis skills didnt completely vanish omg

hot take: contemporary horror movies serve the same function as greek tragedies in their time

Okay so a bit more detail on that:

– as stated in Aristotle Poetics, the aim of the tragedy is to create the catharsis, “a mix of terror and pity that purges the spectator from their passions”. Horror movies: make you feel compassion for the victims and horror for the crime while you can observe it from afar (and, often, cry and yell)

– what makes the tragic hero(ine) is their Hubris, aka pride that make them commit crimes in the eyes of the gods. More specifically, they forget theyre but simply human beings and try to act like gods, disrespecting sacred things. Horror movies will pretty often criminalize teenagers having sex, and uphold moral values for a specific ideology.

– the tragedy, as stated by Aristotle, must “show and not tell”. Horror movies use graphic violence or tension, but telling flatly “theres a murderer in this house” would completely kill it

– the importance of the mask. We all know comic and tragic masks (🎭) from Ancient Greece. One of the roles of the mask was to make obvious the role that the actor played, and to “idealize” it (aka: not an actor anymore but The Widow or something). And look at how many iconic horror movies protagonists wear masks – terrifying, almost abstract masks.

There are probably more examples, those are what came from the top of my head lmao

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short story: technology…… bad

every english teacher ever: hholy shit…. oh my god??? oh my fuckingf. literary masterpiece oh my GOD

short story: *contains fog*

every english teacher ever: it means CONFUSION…. ugh his mind!! fucking symbols,,,I wouldn’t expect your tiny pea size brains to underst