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Never felt pain from blue balls, at least not to any degree that would justify whining about it. If blue balls is so unbearable that it must be relieved through ejaculation or the dude deserves sympathy, why do guys enjoy getting lap dances in strip clubs?

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is profoundly disturbing. Judge Holden is among the most disturbing characters ever written. Also, to jump back a few centuries, Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. If you’ve only been exposed to the more mainstream plays, this one will shock… Read More

“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway. “What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too.”

Oh I don’t know, I thought his performance as John Malkovich was a little derivative.

Nicolas Cage as Castor Troy. Well, except for maybe John Travolta as Castor Troy.

Good messages but one nit pick: the “Dinos thought they had time” is an odd argument since Dinos were on the earth for 170 million years and Homo sapiens have been around for only 200,000. The T-Rex was closer to today than it was to the Stegosaurus. Just not a very compelling example.… Read More

Same! For quizzes, we had to translate portions of the text into modern English. No training ahead of time, just figure it out from the context. And Chaucer was pretty raunchy for a story about a religious pilgrimage.

Literary Criticism was pretty weird. Learning that there is no inherent meaning to any of the letters in the alphabet. The symbols only have negative value in that the only meaningful feature of any given letter symbol is that it is not any of the other letter symbols in a closed… Read More

English Linguistics. The class material wasn’t that weird but the professor was a genius who couldn’t seem to manage everyday life. He would reach into his pocket for a pair of reading glasses and pull out a mangled wad of a dozen or more pairs. He would pick his nose up to the second… Read More

Imagine the trial and error involved in early humans figuring out which mushrooms you can eat. Either you die, trip balls, or say “hmm not bad.”