I am probably the only person who finds this amusing.

[readingredhead]

Sentence that did not make it into e-mail to professor, considering that I've only known her since September and wouldn't want to offend:

"I do love reading literary criticism (and I say this with a complete lack of sarcasm) but I also like feeling that my writing represents my ideas about the text without mediation by a third party (I would have made a terrible Catholic)."