laura (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shinyobject) wrote,@ 2008-03-06 02:02:00 |
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Moments when I've felt alive
There was one class, Comp Lit II I think, with Dr. Busse.
She asked for someone to read Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" aloud. If you don't know it, it's a Duke telling his guest about a painting of his last duchess. A painting which he keeps curtained so only he sees it, and presumably he had her killed. It's subtle in that "A Modest Proposal" kind of way, horrifying in a
After the first part, I paused, but she didn't ask for another reader, so I continued.
When it was done, there was a couple seconds of silence, and then Dr. Busse said:
"Thank you, Laura. That was beautiful."
There was one class, Comp Lit II I think, with Dr. Busse.
She asked for someone to read Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" aloud. If you don't know it, it's a Duke telling his guest about a painting of his last duchess. A painting which he keeps curtained so only he sees it, and presumably he had her killed. It's subtle in that "A Modest Proposal" kind of way, horrifying in a
After the first part, I paused, but she didn't ask for another reader, so I continued.
When it was done, there was a couple seconds of silence, and then Dr. Busse said:
"Thank you, Laura. That was beautiful."
