It's probably just my slowly setting in paper-grading hysteria, but this is my favorite quote extracted from an evening of freshman writing:
"The troops on the battlefield also want to walk away as Victorians."
It has a quiet sublimity to it, no? A close second would be a description of Rambo, refusing to settle down, "budding heads" with the authorities.
Ahhhhhhhh.
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- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence
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- Willa Cather, Sapphira the Slave Girl
- Maryse Conde, Tale of the Cannibal Woman
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- Erna Brodber, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home
- Shani Mootoo, He Drown She in the Sea
- C.L.R. James, Minty Alley
3 comments:
In the postgame interviews, I'm going to start asking players, "So, how does it feel to walk away Victorian tonight?"
Like anyone on Earth wants to be a Victorian! A Plantagenet, well, that's another story...
I want to be Victorian so that I can ban Suffrage.
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