Getting to know you weirdos meme

[attackfish]

Ganked without attribution from people on other people's f-lists

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's Parker ...she likes money and cereal." I'd love it if everyone who's friended me did this. (Yes, even you people who I know really well.) Then post this in your own journal [only if you feel inclined]. In return, ask me anything you'd like to know about me and I'll give you an answer*.

*Providing it's answerable/suitable for public posting.

Comments

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but my teacher didn't specify that the situation was identical to LotF, and I was a born malingerer.

I never understood why LotF was seen as so meaningful, or why teachers kept pushing it as a rousing adventure. No.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Lord of the Flies is not a rousing adventure. It suffers from a lot of What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic (or, to be more respectful, it's a book with WDYMINT, if you're in the US, or a What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic book, if you're in the UK), and a lot of it makes very little literal sense, which would work better if the symbolic meaning were itself cogent and well-argued.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Speaking as an American, what does the T stand for in WDYMINT? We use What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic too.

which would work better if the symbolic meaning were itself cogent and well-argued

Oh, this, so much. And if Golding hadn't used religious symbols that to me as a non-Christian didn't mean much. *shrug*

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

It stands for "oops, chordatesrock made a typo."

The symbols didn't mean much to me as a Christian, either. The book is bad that way.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oy.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The scene with the pig-hunt in the meadow is particularly bad about that. I think I managed to weasel out of writing about LotF for high school English, which was a good thing for my mental health.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I didn't, but I excoriated it in essay form instead. The failing grade was totally worth it. It was even more worth it when I appealed the grade and got an A.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

You are officially awesome. I would love to read that essay.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

*blushes shamefaced* It was an in class essay, and as soon as I was done with the class, it when straight in the recyclables. I try to pretend that I didn't write anything before my eighteenth birthday, because while I was cogent, and argued a good case, I was pretentious as fuck.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

That's a shame. I have a tenth-- or maybe eleventh-- grade essay arguing that Tristan and Iseult is about how good intentions can lead to terrible outcomes. That probably sounds reasonable to you, but, actually, as an example, I cited the "fact" that the entire story was accidentally masterminded by sentient birds as evidence of my point.

(On that topic, you cannot convince me that the lepers weren't secretly planning to release Iseult. Otherwise, the story is just too problematic.)

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

When I was fifteen, I wrote an essay all about how the holy grail stories across Celtic and Germanic Europe had their roots in pre-Christian myths of a cauldron of plenty, and had nothing to do with Jesus's bloodline or Mary Magdalene, thank you very much. The Da Vinci Code really annoyed me, if you couldn't tell, so I wrote it for kicks, though I later submitted it for extra credit. I also attempted a feminist analysis of Guinevere and Morgan le Fay, which in retrospect is kind of adorable.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

It makes me very sad that you didn't save these.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad the world has been spared their continued existence.