Why is there always one guy in your english class who thinks everything is about sex. It's like he's possessed by the soul of Sigmund and he likes to demonstrate how liberated he is by casually using words like penis and orgasm. In every sentence.
You'd think he was a psych graduate, except that if he'd ever actually studied psychology he'd know Freud was full of crap. Obviously he's just heard of psychoanalytic literary criticism and he's determined to apply it to everything. (And btw I do not get psychoanalytic criticism. How is a theory that every psychologist in the last hundred years has basically debunked going to help you understand anything? There are better theories. Much better. Freud is not the be all and end all of psychology. Let's move on, people.)
It's not that I'm a prude (or not any more prudish than your average Irish librarian anyway), I just think maybe sometimes it's not about oral fixation and fantasising about your Ma. No one in Hemmingway even has a Ma! I've literally started to wince everytime this guy opens his mouth. And he does that a lot.
So you can imagine my horror on scanning the reading list, only to discover that in a few weeks we'll be doing Lady Chatterley.
That'll be fun.
you should keep a quote diary on him, it could be funny!
ReplyDeleteHow annoying, which book were you actually discussing? I'm sure you can pre-empt what he is going to say at the next meeting and rehearse some suitable put down!
ReplyDeleteThinking everything is about sex is so 'A level English'! That's so funny. And the quote diary idea is BRILLIANT.
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