Reminds me of an English teacher I had as a jr in High School.
We (the class & her) would go round&round discussing some book or a contemporary issue until we finally figured out what she wanted to hear.
Sometimes the class resembled the Twilight Zone.
Like the time that we were discussing 'To Kill a Mockingbird' .
We had all seen the movie w/ GPeck before we read the book but still, when I brought up the 'Rabid Dog' episode where the sheriff asks Atticus to take the kill shot, not only did no one in the 25+ student class recall the episode but the teacher didn't either! They all looked at me as if they thought I was 'on' something!
Shook me up enough that, right afterwards, I actually went to the library to confirm that I wasn't imagining things.
Talk about 'weird'!

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On Tue, 1/10/17, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] For comment, please...
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 3:48 AM

 On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 6:19
 PM, Jonathan Clark <xxxxxx@att.net>
 wrote:
 Shakespearean analysis is not
 usually a topic I stray into . . .

 DIscussions like this always remind
 of a bit from the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back To
 School" . . . 
 Dangerfield plays a self-made
 billionaire named Thorton Melon who never finished high
 school. Worried about how his son will do at college, Melon
 "arranges" (through the generous application of
 his boundless wealth) to attend the same college as a
 freshman. But - of course - Melon isn't actually
 interested in doing any schoolwork. So when his English lit
 teacher assigns an essay on the meaning behind
 "Slaughterhouse Five," Melon hires Kurt Vonnegut
 to write the essay. 
 [The author actually has a walk-in
 part in which he's seen knocking on the dorm condo*
 door.]
 To his vast
 surprise, when Melon gets the assignment back, he's
 gotten a very low grade (a "D" IIRC). When Melon
 complains to the professor, he's told, "You totally
 misunderstood the work." The silent look of bafflement
 Melon gives in response to this is classic
 Dangerfield.
 *I call
 it the "dorm condo" because - in another display
 of wealth - Melon has persuaded the college to allow him to
 knock down the walls between three separate dorm residences
 and combine them into a single palatial bachelor
 pad. 

 --
 Richard Aiken

 "Never insult anyone by accident." 
 Robert A. Heinlein"I studied the Koran a great
 deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there
 have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as
 Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville
 (1843)"We know a little about a lot
 of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean
 Winchester
 "It has been my experience
 that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger."
 Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey),
 to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons
 held by Knight's young children and
 wife.

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