That sounds frighteningly like the dicussion I had with the Full Professor *cough* teaching the History of France since 1648 (or a date similar to that) that I took my final semester of college. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the class, it was that I was desperate to Pass And Graduate, and he was standing in my way. He let me out with a D+, because I tried very hard to write a decent paper on the historical significance of the propaganda uses of Marie Antoinnette's question in response to the bread riots. "If they do not have bread, then why do they not eat cake?" (I still maintain that the poor women was little better than a pawn for her family of birth and the Roman Catholic Church. She really had no hope of being anything but.)
I'm a much better writer for having written that paper. I'd like to say that I remember something from the class other than the fact that civets smell like skunks, but I would be lying.
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Date: 2005-04-21 21:19 (UTC)I'm a much better writer for having written that paper. I'd like to say that I remember something from the class other than the fact that civets smell like skunks, but I would be lying.