Under rapid fire.
Neil is asking me question after question. It's been so long since I last sat in one of his classes and I've completely forgotten how much pleasure and pressure one can feel to have him as a teacher.
What movement were the Neo-Classicists reacting against? Romanticism.
Goethe's work The Sorrows of Young Werther is associated with what movement? (Shit.) Sturm and Drang.
Which means? (SHIT.) Storm and... Storm and.. Storm and (jesusfuckingchrist) STRESS.
I look at Kath and she starts to laugh. Stress indeed. My hair has stuck to my forehead. So much nervous perspiration. But Kath is laughing. So that means I'm okay. Kit is in the corner playing the guitar, oblivious to everyone. Abi has wrapped herself in a cocoon of silence (as usual) and is not paying us any attention. I turn to Neil, wondering if he minds his students not paying him any attention but... he's GONE.
The vulnerability of power is that it wishes to be acknowledged.
- J.Neil Garcia
Class, 25 April 2004
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(sigh.) i miss going to class. i miss the confusion. i don't miss real life. it's overrated.
ui... "jesusfuckingchrist"... harsh
haha sinu yun? "Cocoon of silence." I like it. hehe.
--abi
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