Schooled!
(During a class discussion of Raymond Carver's short story Cathedral, in which a wise blind man appears):
Sarah: Wasn't Virgil blind?
smartypants: No, you're thinking of Homer.
Sarah: I knew it was some Greek, anyhow.
smartypants: Um, Virgil was Roman.
Sarah: Well, I knew it was some... Greco-Roman.
(Note: I knew Homer was blind, I just thought... maybe...Virgil was too?)
Sarah: Wasn't Virgil blind?
smartypants: No, you're thinking of Homer.
Sarah: I knew it was some Greek, anyhow.
smartypants: Um, Virgil was Roman.
Sarah: Well, I knew it was some... Greco-Roman.
(Note: I knew Homer was blind, I just thought... maybe...Virgil was too?)
posted by sarahfisch at
12:19 AM
8 Comments:
i don't know about all that, but smartypants *must* die.
Smartypants needs to fuck off, big time.
That's one of my favorite short stories ever.
And Smartypants always have low self esteem. Or that's what I tell myself.
A blind man with a beard? Too much, I say!
maybe he was just metaphorically blind...in a greco-roman sort of way.
holy mother of mary.
this is the MOST INCREDIBLE thing i've seen in years...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II
Holy mother of Mary indeed, Alissa-Colbert fucking RULES! And thanks to y'all fer your support. Damn that smartypants. Who is, by the by, ten years younger than I.
the helen thomas thing was OVER THE TOP! and the last third is usually backwash!
OH MY GOD! the man is a genius! and he has balls the size of bowling balls!!!
maybe we can sic him on smartypants.
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