NINTH GRADE? What school system allowed that? Did they not read it beforehand? Did they not understand that whole scenes took place at an abortionist's office? (No shade to abortionists, but I can't wrap my head around any school teaching about it, considering my ninth grade experience didn't even allow for discussion of abortions in sex ed)
I've always hated that Ethan From is the Wharton book they give you to read in high school (reason: it is the shortest. This is literally the reason). It is nothing like her other books. Yes, the bleakness and the condemnation of marriage is like her other books, but everything else about it reads like it's from a different author. I blame it on her trying to write about poor people: all her books about rich assholes (aka her real life experience) are great, full of absolutely perfect details. But also, Ethan Frome is possibly the tamest book she wrote in terms of sex, pickles and donuts aside...Has anyone read "Summer"? It's considered the partner of Ethan From (aka "Winter") and it's kinda an amazing run-down of sex and bad situations.
Even nerdier Classicist version of same joke: Euripides trousers, Eumenides trousers.
Seconding. That line is one of the greatest lines in the history of language.
Interestingly, as a self-identifying cis mostly-straight girl, Angelica Huston as Morticia Addams remains a high-water mark for me in bisexual self-awareness. And her relationship with Gomez remains perfection personified to me.
You ever see the movie where he was played by Joe Fiennes?
The gender bias on the list has me thinking: I am guilty of associating a lot of what I would consider "jockish" traits with aggressive maleness and flat-out misogyny, and nerdness with more female stuff. While this is certainly a product of my own experience (a midwest upbringing in what could easily be called a Jockocracy, and me a girl nerd who was particularly hassled and bullied at times) and clearly not reflective of all people's experiences, I wonder if a list with more female (or let's face it, general non-privileged-white-male) authors would change my opinion. Can we get some female jocks to represent? In a positive way, especially? Name me some heroic jock girls, please.
Also, if we extended the list of Canon back out of the twentieth century, would definitions of Jock v Nerd still apply? Are any of Jane Austen's women jocks? (Many of them are excellent walkers). Shakespeare--where the heck does HE stand?
“My child, if posers entice you, do not consent.”
As true today as when it was written.
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