and from the first day of school, we get:

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*The plan is to get the school paper out more than four times a year. (yay!)
*Drama class is going to be... interesting. There're eleven of us and some questionable mental states.
*I can read The Little Prince for a grade. In AP English, no less. (Last time I "read" it I was eight and mainly just looking at the pictures...)
*Study halls are of the GOOD.
*Three seniors (including myself) in health. At least I'm not in it alone.
*Mrs. Helms liked the CD I put together for her. And I'm sure I can come up with more things.
*"And so it was that the peanut butter sandwich (on whole wheat bread) suddenly ceased to be of any interest, and our herione turned her attention toward the snack cakes also packed for lunch." (That was me, at lunch. Don't know why, just felt rather... Middle-English at the moment.)
The Victorian Lit Theory (meant to post it last night, actually): There is no social commentary to be found. There are only stupid people. Unless it's the sort of thing Daegaer came up with, and then there is only subtext enough to drive you crazy.
Angela, if you're paying attention, bring Good Omens to school tomorrow. Friendly reminder.

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...woah. Our school paper was supposed to come out four times a year. The year I was in journalism, I think it came out twice. And it was funny because each issue was printed so belatedly that the articles were completely irrelevant; movies that had left the theater, advance notices about school performances that had already occurred...

You can read The Little Prince for a grade? That is ridiculously awesome. I read it in French this year for fun, but I'd never read it in English, and I think I want to read the English version in case I missed something... which I'm sure I did!

Also, study halls are of the Fabulous. I'll definitely miss them this year.

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Yeah, we've got that problem. No wonder nothing sells besides the senior issue - no one wants to read about the valiant preparations for one-acts two weeks after the performances. :b
I couldn't tell you whether you missed anything, as the only real plot details I remember are the "draw me a sheep" bit and life on an asteroid. XD
If not for study hall I'd've had more homework than a prayer to do when I got home. As such, am praising study hall. ('S also the only time I'm in the same room as The Prat, and the teacher won't take it from him, so. Study hall = of the most excellent.)

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The Little Prince? I read it in French for French class, and I don't know any French! I'll be over here reading Dante's Inferno and envying you.

Study halls, subtext, Good Omens, and Middle English moments make me grin.

There is no social commentary to be found. There are only stupid people.

That can be adjusted to fit any situation, ever, I think.

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I just have to hope no one else wants to read it. XD (Could read it on my own, as Dad has a copy. And if someone else claims it I could always read the weird-arse rhinoceros thing.)
Man, that subtext rocks beyond all measure. Some of the guys from my English class last year would have a bloody field day with that stuff - they were all over the subtext in Frankenstein. (That was as close to on-topic as we got all year, I think.)
I guess it can fit any situation, but Victorian lit in particular. Only Charles Dickens can make a twelve-page story feel like three hundred.
...Well, and maybe Hemingway. Any rate, they're both Cesspool of Suck.

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I've never read any Charles Dickens (am so uncultured), but I've read Hemingway, and . . . gah! Hemingway! Cesspool of Suck is too kind! He is evil.

. . . weird-arse rhinoceros thing? Your class is, um, interesting.

The subtext borders on actual text. 'I'll lick your hand' indeed. Personally, I'm a Roberts/Bracy shipper. Gedge is unworthy peasantry. *sniff*

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YOU DON'T WANT TO. Great Expectations is a sucky sucky book. The end wasn't too bad, but the beginning and the middle aren't worth the trouble necessary to understand the end. However, Old Man and the Sea has the honor (or something) of being the nly school-assigned book I didn't finish. COuldn't take all that Joe DiMaggio anymore. :b
The rhinoceros thing is one of the options. It's really really short, but evidently the catch is we have to try and make some kind of sense out of it. Might be good for a larke.
Subtext, we loves it... (If I find those things locally I might recommend them to some of the "nature walks" people (Frankenstein subtext) from last year.)

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Eek. I shall keep that in mind. Never particularly wanted to read Dickens anyway.

I finished The Old Man and the Sea—only school-assigned book I couldn't finish was The Grapes of Wrath—but I'd really like to have my time refunded. 'There is no symbolism, only stupid people (and fish).' Also The Sun Also Rises and a few short stories, which were not exactly well received on my part, though I'm told he wrote much better novels. Bleh.

. . . I've only ever read an except from Frankenstein. I'm mildly disturbed to hear that it's subtexty.

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Isn't that one stupid people and a turtle trying to cross the road for an entire chapter?
In places, yes it is. The "nature walks" thing had to do with the people writing that sort of thing. The other almost-but-not-quite-on-topic discussions concerned whether Mary Shelley had any idea what she was writing, on the scientific front.