d_aulnoy | (no subject)

Aaaaaaaaaaand, today, I teach Deerskin. I'm starting us off with a few cultural referents (helloooooooo, Purity Balls!) (also, Marilyn Monroe's "Daddy," of "Let's Make Love" fame: I remember watching that movie as a kid with my father, and thinking, even at age 7, "Okay, I know from daddies, and that? Is creepy") before carrying us into statistics and Terri Windling's astonishing, heart-breaking, beautifully honest essay, "Surviving Childhood." These two works, Deerskin and "Surviving Childhood" are two of the most compelling arguments that I'm aware of for the continuing prevalence of the fairy tale, no matter how many issues I have with Princess Industrial Complex. Here's hoping my students agree ....

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Heh - thank you! I tend to love it myself, except for the rare days when no one does the reading, which, mysteriously, tend to coincide with the days when papers are due ....

The class went nicely on the whole, despite the fact that today was one of those days when papers were due. Ah, for the days when I, too, could slack according to whim ....