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[d_aulnoy]

Dear Hallway Monster:

I have come to terms with your occasionally hilarious blasting of loud bursts of music at significant portions of my lectures (see: Billy Holiday during my discussion of the relationship between Lewis Carrol and Alice Pleasance Liddell, wailing lament as I discuss the death of Aslan, and, worse (much worse), the bad rap which caused my class to segue into a discussion of what person/class could be playing said bad rap, i.e., "Oh, hell no, that better not be a Black Studies class" as we were discussing Toni Morrison).  I understand, a Hallway Monster needs to do what a Hallway Monster needs to do.

However.

If you could avoid creating noises that sound suspiciously like gunshots when I am in the middle of teaching, I would appreciate it.  Because, while I won a cheap laugh off of "This class brought to you by our resident giant!", I'd appreciate not seeing my students collectively perk their ears like a nest of rabbits.

Love,
d_aulnoy

Unrelatedly: so,on "Lost" this season, we keep hearing mention of "The Oceanic Six."  Think we've seen them all?  Because, as far as I can tell, we are now technically at six, but two of the members are ... negotiable.

Well, maybe not so unrelatedly: I kind of like picturing my Hallway Monster as a billowing black cloud of smoke.  Then again, I like picturing myself as John Locke.

Comments

[sacredchao23.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough when you first mentioned the Hallway Monster I also had the image of black smoke winding its way down university halls.

I've had a hallway monster, though it was usually quoting Hitler and shouting about World War II in a voice that sounded oddly like Tom Hanks.

[schrodingersgnu.livejournal.com]

Umm, isn't it the Oceanic Eight?

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Nope - eight "survived" the made-up version of the crash, but only 6 returned. So, what say you: do Ben and the baby count? Or do we assume that Ben's still surreptitiously snaking on and off the island with no one the wiser, and that the baby's a bonus due to not having been on the flight manifests?

[schrodingersgnu.livejournal.com]

Hod damn - you're paying attention and shit. That one completely went past me. :)

But, yeah, I'd say the baby is a bonus. You know, they are not legally people until they turn 18.

[sacredchao23.livejournal.com]

I believe the baby counts (I think the advert/preview for that episode mentioned that "another member of the Oceanic Six would be revealed"). However I don't think Ben counts as he wasn't part of the Oceanic flight.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, eenteresting ... maybe this was just me desperately hoping to see Locke or Sawyer in a flashforward.

And wouldn't somebody have noticed that Kate was not heavily pregnant going *on* the flight, but possessed of a healthy, what, one year old on being rescued? Grah, J.J. Adams.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

This so reminds me of an anecdote read in a wall display at a Maine Shakespeare theatre-- the actor had just declaimed, "Hark! For the king's train approacheth!" when the freight rumbling through town blasted its air horn. The audience completely dissolved in laughter.