How do you feel about this?

hanana
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:16:40 +0000

Hahaha hanana I noticed the same thing among my less introspective English teachers. I think it’s because they see literature in cliches, rather than searching for original thought. Because really for many of them, their jobs are just teaching students to identify the cliches and analyze accordingly. It is the easiest way to get students to pass their stupid tests.
“Pornography is… the copulation of cliches.” --Nabokov
Our teachers love porn!

Yeah, all my English teachers are like this, only my creative writing mentor tries to see the more intriguing and thought provoking ideas it frustrates me. I almost hate the fact that they tell us to think of interesting ideas and how cliches aren’t good yet they like it when students write pretty much the same thing as the examples they show us.



she said they were talking about secret group stuff and I should wait while they whispered and giggled.

Oh the secret groups we used to have when we were little girls. I think excluding the people who have helped you socially gives you a feeling powerful like you are part of authority? Because there have been a lot of that type of drama in my life as a child, and I could never understand why my “friends” did that to each other.