Wednesday, February 13, 2008

invention request

you know how when you're smelling perfumes at a store, they put out little dishes of coffee beans to clear your nose in between fragrance samples?  (they do.)  well, i need the equivalent to clear my brain between papers i'm grading.  to get a song out of one's head, one of my wise dissertation advisors advocated humming a few bars of black sabbath's "ironman."  and you know what?  it TOTALLY works.  erases the annoying persistent tune and then erases itself.  what could i put in my brain that will do that for student prose?

3 comments:

Flavia said...

It's called the internet. Alas.

dhawhee said...

maybe read a little of a writer you admire, like foucault or guattari.

mao.mimosa said...

nothing. sorry. there is no antidote to student prose.