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Doktor Zoom's avatar

I realized about five minutes after this went up that I'd completely neglected to include my very moving True Story Of Part Of Why I Switched From Being A Literature Major To Being A Rhetoric Major In Gradual School, so here it is, pinned as an appendix, or an embroidered Letter even, to the story text:

In my second or third year of grad school I started realizing that I was enjoying teaching writing as an underpaid TA a lot more than I was enjoying PhD level literature studies. Part of what cinched it was when we were reading The Scarlet Letter, which I'd somehow never read before, go figure. One day in the U of Arizona library, I ran into a classmate (I forget his name; he was German and I want to call him Klaus, damn me) and joked, "Hey, you know what? I think Hester and Dimmesdale have something going on." A lame joke, to be sure, but deliberately so, because DUH.

Klaus or Gerhard or whatever just looked at me like I had observed that I am a big boy and I like big trucks, vroom! vroom! and he replied, "Vell, I suppose you *could* read it for the plot."

Dear reader, I have NO RAGRETS

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Rebecca Schoenkopf's avatar

Whoops, sorry, after all that I didn't realize we were now defaulted to NO COMMENTS FUCK ALL YALL. Fixed, comment away!

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