I didn't do Romeo and Juliet till my senior year. I did Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Taming of the Shrew, and Othello over the years before we got to Romeo and Juliet.
I did Romeo and Juliet freshman year, Julius Caesar sophomore year, and Macbeth and Halmet senior year (junior year was devoted to American literature).
The combination of senioritis and Hamlet is not great.
Taming of the Shrew was my senior paper. That was pretty good for senioritis. Freshman year we did classic literature, sophomore year was world lit, junior year was American lit. Senior year I had options. I did medieval English lit which was Beowulf, Tristan and Isolde, various other bits from Le Mort de Aurthur, the Canturbury tales and a few other bits I am forgetting for half the year. Second half was a pure Shakespeare class.
if you make a very, very convincing fake, doesn't it then become real
Eddy
fakes always have to be more real than the thing itself because they dont have actuality to fall back on
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if we measure realness by a situation's proximity to its mother simulacrum then yes, because of the nature of the replica versus the inevitably failed attempt of the "real" to fit what was once imaginary
but of course there is only existence and the void
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
if you make a very, very convincing fake, doesn't it then become real
Eddy
fakes always have to be more real than the thing itself because they dont have actuality to fall back on
ok
if we measure realness by a situation's proximity to its mother simulacrum then yes, because of the nature of the replica versus the inevitably failed attempt of the "real" to fit what was once imaginary
but of course there is only existence and the void
existence, the void and punani according to late wittgenstein
surrealitycheck on
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
Strangely I did not read a single American playwright in high school. But there's no accounting for the pathetic anglophilia of the American school system.
You never did Our Town? I think I ended up doing it twice. Once in Middle School and once in High School.
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I remember doing Shakespeare freshman year was Romeo and Juliet. I was not excited then.
Sophmore year we did Julius Caesar. A much better play and still pretty accessible to high schoolers.
I think we did Macbeth senior year. I kind of slept through Senior English so I am not sure. I was forced to read Wuthering Heights though. I did not like that novel.
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Wuthering Heights is like your soul going through chemotherapy
I've been listening to this in the background while coding today. It seems good so far. People looking for an intro to the Tanakh / Hebrew Bible / Old Testament might want to give it a look.
I've been listening to this in the background while coding today. It seems good so far. People looking for an intro to the Tanakh / Hebrew Bible / Old Testament might want to give it a look.
Strangely I did not read a single American playwright in high school. But there's no accounting for the pathetic anglophilia of the American school system.
You never did Our Town? I think I ended up doing it twice. Once in Middle School and once in High School.
Strangely we did not.
Now that you mention it, I want to say we did The Crucible? I think we must have, I know I read it and I don't know when else I would have read it if not in HS.
I'm about ready to throw a fit with this automated grading system for programming assignments. lol this is 0% correct for some reason and I won't tell you why
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
Strangely I did not read a single American playwright in high school. But there's no accounting for the pathetic anglophilia of the American school system.
You never did Our Town? I think I ended up doing it twice. Once in Middle School and once in High School.
Strangely we did not.
Now that you mention it, I want to say we did The Crucible? I think we must have, I know I read it and I don't know when else I would have read it if not in HS.
I'm about ready to throw a fit with this automated grading system for programming assignments. lol this is 0% correct for some reason and I won't tell you why
well you were supposed to use recursion to solve the towers of hanoi puzzle and all you did was write "this is dicks" a few dozen times
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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My favorite books that I read in high school were 1984 and The Count of Monte Cristo. Both still phenomenal.
Good Omens was mine. That high school English teacher was the best. She was an English teacher that clearly loved to read and picked out new books for her curriculum (Good Omens came out a couple years before I started that class). We also read John Gardner's Grendel alongside Beowulf.
Back when I was like 14 years old a friend of mine pointed out that Neo (from the Matrix) was One backward, a clear reference to the messiah theme going on
I was like "buuuut...."
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Taming of the Shrew was my senior paper. That was pretty good for senioritis. Freshman year we did classic literature, sophomore year was world lit, junior year was American lit. Senior year I had options. I did medieval English lit which was Beowulf, Tristan and Isolde, various other bits from Le Mort de Aurthur, the Canturbury tales and a few other bits I am forgetting for half the year. Second half was a pure Shakespeare class.
if we measure realness by a situation's proximity to its mother simulacrum then yes, because of the nature of the replica versus the inevitably failed attempt of the "real" to fit what was once imaginary
but of course there is only existence and the void
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
existence, the void and punani according to late wittgenstein
You never did Our Town? I think I ended up doing it twice. Once in Middle School and once in High School.
You just don't see that any more.
Sophmore year we did Julius Caesar. A much better play and still pretty accessible to high schoolers.
I think we did Macbeth senior year. I kind of slept through Senior English so I am not sure. I was forced to read Wuthering Heights though. I did not like that novel.
Still eating at home but easy to cook and eat.
Also delicious.
#sickJewthuglife or something.
I don't get hashtags.
yeah. Like the Yale series about the ancient greeks (same channel) the first lecture has a lot of generalizations that get filled in later
ancient greeks more like ancient geeks amirite
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
butts spelled backwards is butts
Strangely we did not.
Now that you mention it, I want to say we did The Crucible? I think we must have, I know I read it and I don't know when else I would have read it if not in HS.
i can't even read it now i don't know what i was thinking
was it the weed?
woaaaahhhhhhh
We also did Death of a Salesmen.
I have really fond memories of the poetry junior year though
giant anthology-chan
I read Count of Monte Cristo. And despise it to this day.
Just get it over worth. Kill them or don't. Stop being all fucking whiny.
UGH!
I know I have the minority opinion on this but gah. High school English can ruin books. And I was in honors for that one.
I also had to read Huck Finn for the third time.
Ugh.
when i was 13 i had an ownlord teacher who wandered around the room giving everybody random books
he said "every one of these i regard as a masterpiece"
one guy got war and peace (rekt)
another guy got rousseaus confessions
some bastard got the dark knight returns and i got the new confessions
the strugle
well you were supposed to use recursion to solve the towers of hanoi puzzle and all you did was write "this is dicks" a few dozen times
I had a lot of Twain growing up but that's a Connecticut thing. But Huck Finn just once. I read most of his short stories in school at various times.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I like Twain's essays and his angry but funny rantings.
His books not so much.
I first read Huck Finn on my own in 3rd grade. Then again in 7th. Then again in 11th.
Ugh.
The thing with the last time it could of been Great Gatsby. It was teacher choice. Also that teacher was just horrible.
this might be it
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393979202/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3I98SOU7XD68E&coliid=IZOG7LYHBQQGE
ps4 ain't gettin' shit yet
I was like "buuuut...."
oh right
good i didn't really feel like playing it tonight
I didnt even know about smile until eddy posted a link
eddy!
what a topsy turvy world we live in
he probably donates to the school for underdressed gengar or something
Huck Finn is one of those things that needs to be read, as an adult, once but for which once is enough.
hundreds of pages of buildup to one important moment but well worth it all the more for the wait