You Know You're an English Major When...

[AzureN1ght]

Well, I guess technically this is an "Honors" course, as it's HON 201, but most of us enrolled are English students, and an English professor's teaching it, and it's called "Multi Disciplinary Approaches to Reading, Writing and Research". We're reading all sorts of crazy books, the professor's favorites.

I'm currently reading one called "Cosmicomics" by Italo Calvino. This chapter I'm on is cracking me up. Essentially, this character, Qfqfq (all the characters have consonant-only names so far) and his "family" have been around since before the Milky Way galaxy began, and he's talking about making the first sign in the universe:

"So the situation was this: the sign served to mark a place but at the same time it meant that in that place there was a sign (something far more important because there were plenty of places but there was only one sign) and also at the same time that sign was mine, the sign of me, because it was the only sign I had ever made and I was the only one who had ever made signs. It was like a name, the name of that point, and also my name that I had signed on that spot; in short, it was the only name available for everything that required a name."

The chapter's just amusing me--the whole thing's written like that. Boggles my mind. So, now I'll go back to reading Just thought I'd share.

[Nate]

boggling indeed....

[tigerlily]

Uhhhhhhh....

[AzureN1ght]

Uhhhhhhh....

For further amusement--try reading that paragraph out loud. It gets sillier and sillier.

[tigerlily]

For further amusement--try reading that paragraph out loud. It gets sillier and sillier.

Well I know why you're here and not reading that book.

[Laooda]

That author is the kind of person that would make a great lunch date!!!!

[AzureN1ght]

Well I know why you're here and not reading that book.

Actually, I now have to: Write an electronic journal about my opinion of the book, research "Dinosaurs" (as I'm in charge of explaining the chapter about Dinosaurs) and be able to thoroughly explain that chapter and whatever research I pull up, and write a 3pg Reader Response, including 3 sources about the book -.-

Reading a 150pg book and all of the above were my assignments for the week. I'm a procrastinator...and it's a once-a-week class...and he assigns a lot :eek: It's bad to try and pull all that off the night before class...

So I'm here procrastinating some more

[dr del]

Never put off till tomorrow what you could do today - if it turns out to be fun you could do it again tomorrow, with handcuffs and a chicken.


dr del