Dave's BLog

I found this little commentary on Slashdot and found it rather ammusing. When I took my first literature course in college I saw this sort of thing going on. At first I was completely baffled, and then I suspected my peers and professor were all faking- kinda like we were all sitting around a ouija board and he had his fingers on the little pointer thingy.

Once I figured out that reading literature was really about how cleverly I could craft the most far out determinations and make them plausible, I found it quite enjoyable. It felt like cynical training.

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