So. Someone on my friends list linked to the
YouTube clip about the T.S. Eliot Equation, and I realized it could be used to prove three things about me:
- I won't have any cats in my old age, because zero divided by anything is always zero. This is good, because I am tragically allergic to cats.
- I won't live to be old, because some right-thinking
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On the bright side, this means I am the only person left in history who can be surprised by plots from the Bible. I cried throughout the Prince of Egypt, for example, and I'm Jewish. Didn't matter, though, because I can't read Hebrew and thus didn't know what was happening in the Haggadah until I saw the movie.
So. It will help if I just sort of take the first five books in a giant-sized chunk? *makes note*
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On the bright side, this means I am the only person left in history who can be surprised by plots from the Bible.
Surprise stemming from narrative developments in any well-known text is very cool -- it's such an interesting perspective that we don't usually hear about. It's funny to think about such works as having "spoilers," but they really do (sort of like most people who have taken some literature classes know what happens in Moby Dick, etc.). I'm sure there are some major texts that I managed to stay unspoiled for until I read them through that I can't think of only because it's 7am on a Saturday. OH! One example -- when I read Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, I hadn't read Chaucer's poem or other treatments of that story, so there were some moments of genuine surprise there.
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