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?
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It's called the internet. Alas.
maybe read a little of a writer you admire, like foucault or guattari.
nothing. sorry. there is no antidote to student prose.
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