Seasonal Humour

[tigermilkdrunk]

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I may be the least-Halloween-inclined person you've ever met (current evening plans involve sitting in my office reading Rousseau's Confessions - which, by the by, is insanely good, and very funny - in order to avoid the unlikely possibility of trick-or-treaters at home), but this is just too good not to share. Contains both bad language and

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[keewee]

I'm going to watch that when I get home from work but I'm going to spend my Halloween evening with Ovid and Edmund Spencer

[tigermilkdrunk]

Two great tastes that make no sense together. I really need to read me some Spenser. I really, um, haven't ever.

[keewee]

But they do make sense together! I'm reading the Arthur Golding translation of Metamorphoses which came out in 1567 and the Faerie Queene came out in 1590/1596.. it's for my 'English Renaissance' class

[tigermilkdrunk]

Ah. A period about which I know squat, but which I would sincerely advise you to seek a PhD in (that's where the jobs are, unless you can do Latina/o, Chicana/o, or African-American, a market which will probably be saturated in ten years anyway - just as the theory market got saturated ten years ago when everyone figured out it was the hot new thing and got degrees in it, and then found that most departments would only hire one or two specialists).

[keewee]

Whoa, thanks for the tip. My immediate reaction to studying the English Renaissance full time and for years and years and years is "Hmph" because my "passion level" for that stuff isn't super high; in fact, I'm not sure I would have signed up for this class had not Professor BFF been teaching it. I'm really glad I'm taking it though, because I feel like I'm learning about 8328938929821893 things, things that most English undergrads (especially at my school) would learn in 1-2 years, not in a single semester.. Anyway, right now my "plan" for an MA is that if I move to Seattle I'm very interested in this because they have a 1-term program in Paris which is a good compromise from doing a year there, and their comp lit program contains their film studies classes, which would be cool.