The heresy of paraphrase

[readingredhead]

I had two opportunities to talk about writing today with writers, which is really weird and unusual and lovely and should happen more often. Both of these too-brief conversations were held before the beginning of a class, and inevitably there were other (non-writer) people listening. In my Clarissa seminar the guy who sits across from me noticed my

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[octavius_x]

I was trying to think of some witty retort here but basically you have summed it up in that last comment. I salute you!

Also Candace, you say these things and I am just like "These things! That you are saying! This is why I fear the East coast, no one can fuckin' chill." As we say in the hood they see me rollin' they hatin'. Anwyway I am waiting for your space-time bending city story.

[readingredhead]

I think it's less about the East Coast and more about graduate school in English lit. And to be fair the girl who made the Twilight comment is the same girl who owns a harp...so it's not like they are ALL like this. For example Jenny Davidson has spent her whole life on the East Coast and yet regularly talks about fantasy and science fiction novels and TV shows in class (she had an aside the other day in which she compared Sabriel and George R. R. Martin, talking about the fear of the North & screening things away with magical walls, and I wanted to just pause the entire class conversation and inform her that we need to have a lengthy talk about fantasy novels so I can worship her brain even more than I already do). I am incredibly glad she exists because she gives me hope