in case you're in need of a chuckle...
+ On the brit. lit. midterm, several students mistakenly analyzed the character of Santa in Milton's epic Paradise Lost. As in: "One of the main themes in Paradise Lost is disobedience, like when Santa rebels against God very much."
That wicked fat old man!
+ The following lines came from the first draft of one of my thesis students who was writing about Gothic culture and literature as an important trend throughout history and still today. In the latter part of her paper she began to connect elements of the Gothic to the modern Goth sub-culture with the following results:
"Gothic people, at the modern time, never mean the people come from ancient Goth tribes anymore. Goth means someone (especially youth) who crazy about Gothic fashion. There are three main branches about Goths.
1) Perky Goths: There are all kinds of Goths from all walks of life. A well known phrase it the perky Goths, the insanely happy and bouny fans who revels in every aspect of life no matter if it's bad or good. They love nothing less than experience of anything, the more the better.
Perky Goths are to be found clubbing, having picnics, avoiding relationships with mopey Goths, being sociable amongs others, whilst the mopey Goths sit on IRC being mopey, or sit in bars being mopey and most the Goths known as Perky Goths.
2) Cyber Goths: A mixture of black, bright colors and glowing alien designs to make a cyber Goth! A breed of perky Goth, Cyber Goths can be found clubbing. Listen to trance, hard techno, industrial, etc. Glos in the dark Goths. Dance, dance and dance, bounce, bounce and bounce!
3) Trad Goths: Traditional Goths who listen to punk and guitar based Gothic music, 80's music. Frilly clothes, big, big hair. Frequently these ones complain about all the bleep and bloop that the cyber Goths listen to! They are crazy about medieval re-enactment and educated in the classics (Latin, history, art). Trad Goths are diminishing in numbers.
Don't ask me where she got her sources on that one... strangely enough, that particular section didn't make it into the final paper.
From the same paper we get this tidbit:
"Goth fashions have a range. People can wear black, or they can wear black. All Goths love black -- it goes with the territory."
Sure it might be a little (plagiarized?) sarcasm, but I prefer to take it as is.
That wicked fat old man!
+ The following lines came from the first draft of one of my thesis students who was writing about Gothic culture and literature as an important trend throughout history and still today. In the latter part of her paper she began to connect elements of the Gothic to the modern Goth sub-culture with the following results:
"Gothic people, at the modern time, never mean the people come from ancient Goth tribes anymore. Goth means someone (especially youth) who crazy about Gothic fashion. There are three main branches about Goths.
1) Perky Goths: There are all kinds of Goths from all walks of life. A well known phrase it the perky Goths, the insanely happy and bouny fans who revels in every aspect of life no matter if it's bad or good. They love nothing less than experience of anything, the more the better.
Perky Goths are to be found clubbing, having picnics, avoiding relationships with mopey Goths, being sociable amongs others, whilst the mopey Goths sit on IRC being mopey, or sit in bars being mopey and most the Goths known as Perky Goths.
2) Cyber Goths: A mixture of black, bright colors and glowing alien designs to make a cyber Goth! A breed of perky Goth, Cyber Goths can be found clubbing. Listen to trance, hard techno, industrial, etc. Glos in the dark Goths. Dance, dance and dance, bounce, bounce and bounce!
3) Trad Goths: Traditional Goths who listen to punk and guitar based Gothic music, 80's music. Frilly clothes, big, big hair. Frequently these ones complain about all the bleep and bloop that the cyber Goths listen to! They are crazy about medieval re-enactment and educated in the classics (Latin, history, art). Trad Goths are diminishing in numbers.
Don't ask me where she got her sources on that one... strangely enough, that particular section didn't make it into the final paper.
From the same paper we get this tidbit:
"Goth fashions have a range. People can wear black, or they can wear black. All Goths love black -- it goes with the territory."
Sure it might be a little (plagiarized?) sarcasm, but I prefer to take it as is.
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Monday, June 11, 2007
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