a small collection of things my lecturers said/did this year
- “you didn’t really get off on yeats, did you?“
- “just google it on the internet"
- reading out a six stanza ballad and explaining every line
“L… G… i can never remember what comes next”
- tearing up while reading an auden poem aloud
- an american lecturer: “it reminds me of a snow globe. you guys have those here, right?”
- asking me if i have a catholic background due to my in depth knowledge of purgatory
- upon asking a question and getting no answer: “you know, i get paid a salary. i can stand here doing nothing and still get paid”
- “this girl from shakespeare’s time probably doesn’t want anything to do with the men because she’s a lesbian”
“i’m sick, i’m really sick. so if i die, that’s that. very appropriate for a gothic literature class"
“whatever language you young people use these days to talk about giving each other blowjobs”
- “those of you who are my age or older may remember something called the cold war”
“you’re in the court, a king’s there, he looks better than you because he’s a luxurious god”
“this is what what us academics do, we have no lives and we hate ourselves, so we go to academic parties and hate each other”
“cato the younger commits suicide, which is good for everybody”
“my own view–and i’m always astonished that this isn’t everyone’s view–”
“people don’t really like being slapped around… i mean some people do, but most people don’t like it”
- on exams: “don’t pull out your notes and start thumbing through those, that looks suspicious”
- “diomedes announces ‘i have come too late’
– there’s blood everywhere, a sword’s sticking out of antony’s body, diomedes is a perceptive guy”
- “because the best way to cure a hangover is to kill yourself apparently”
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