gleeb:
"Reads sexual subtext in the works of Poe." Ha, that's gonna follow her around all day!
keogh:
Poor Sarah. Admittedly, if Eric had contentions with her arguments about early attempts at socialism, he should have brought them up during polysci, but nothing beats a sucker punch.
teambanzai:
Sure you can have your Poe, and your Whitman but what the hell was going with Faulkner? Have you read A Rose for Emily?
TyranosaurisRex:
"My little horse must think it queer, to stop without a village near." "Quit reading Frost. You know he was a pervert."
carbonbased:
.oO (Damn Oprah...I can't make head or tails of Faulkner) Oo.
Generik:
"Sexual subtext in Edgar Allen Poe?! What are you, cracked? Everyone knows it's WALT WHITMAN you want to point the pervert finger at!"
keogh:
"Yes, I'm damn sure this isn't how to play Go." "I thought it was Pente." "Wait, we're not playing checkers?" "There's three of us, does it LOOK like we're playing checkers?"
carbonbased:
This is the house where Melville and Hawthorne spent the summer. Nudge nudge, know what I mean?
keogh:
"Joyce Carol Oates? Did 'er."
gleeb:
"Yeah! Go Melville! We're here! We write deadeningly long chapters about the Whiteness of the Whale! Get over it!"
keogh:
Fuck Coronet, fuck Rosemary Clooney, and fuck you, too.
keogh:
"Well, sure, I read some Melville back in college, but I never...whoa, Nelly! NOW I see what you mean! What a freak."
carbonbased:
"Have you read any Burroughs, Eric?"
teambanzai:
Gladiator movies, Oscar Wilde? Okay where's this conversation going?
teambanzai:
Subtext? Look haven't you ever heard the term some times a cigar is just a cigar. You ever read Clinton's autobiography. Damn you and your logic.
keogh:
"James A. Michener had a whole staff who wrote his books for him." "What are you suggesting?" "...nothin'."
carbonbased:
"Who can tell me which Babylonian fertility myth underlies 'The Cat In the Hat'?"
keogh:
"I can't help but think having Picasso redo the lunchroom during his 'blacker'n shit' period was a mistake."