Age of Dante:
Such a funny class. I was a classmate in a Writing class with an Age of Dante classmate, and so we are kind of buds going in. Very nice, because that makes me super-fun-extroverted-me, and everyone has a fun time with him. There is a group of students (including me) that gets to class like a half hour early, presumably because a class lets out at 11:50, and this class starts at 12:30, and we have nowhere else to be in that time period.
Anyway, this girl walked up to the normal group of four people (me, Shannon, Tonya and Allister). She sits down and I start up a conversation. Before long she asks me where I'm from, and I naturally say, "Las Vegas." To which she responds without allowing any time to pass, "I was just in Massachusetts..." I didn't catch what else she said, because at this point, my brain completely stopped. Las Vegas is more than 2,000 miles away from Massachusetts, and I'm thinking "did she hear Boston? What the hell?" And everybody else is looking around like, what the hell just happened? And we're all laughing nervously. We got back on "track" and I said I grew up in Chatsworth, California. And the other person who wasn't part of the group asked me where I went to school.
Apparently he grew up there too. And if I had stayed another year, I likely would've known him at some point. Instead of being passing acquaintances in a college class. Sufficed to say, it wasn't long before I pointed out that Chatsworth is the porn capital of the States. We began discussing how it was a town secret, or that nobody knew about it. The class before us let out, and then someone said something about "parents not wanting their kids to grow up to be a fluffer." We all laughed really hard, and the kids coming out of the class were kind of confused. Too funny.
In class, we were discussing Canto 3, and we got to the first Contrapassos (punishments fits the crime) of the story. The Neutrals who chase a flag, get attacked by wasps, blood drips into their eyes, and down to the ground which is covered in worms. (Doesn't that sound a lot like Fear Factor to anyone else?) All the while, there are incomprehensible moans, groans, and languages being spoken in an incoherent babble.
After a student said "it doesn't sound so bad" the prof was quick to point out that it was quite unappealing to her. And somehow I managed to work in the comment "It's all downhill from here" which is a fantastic pun for the novel. Since the "Inferno" is a downhill trek through the pits of Hell. She (the prof) actually doubled over from laughter. Everybody laughed a little then groaned at the bad joke I made. What can I say? I'm the Prince of Bad Jokes. Great stuff!
Such a funny class. I was a classmate in a Writing class with an Age of Dante classmate, and so we are kind of buds going in. Very nice, because that makes me super-fun-extroverted-me, and everyone has a fun time with him. There is a group of students (including me) that gets to class like a half hour early, presumably because a class lets out at 11:50, and this class starts at 12:30, and we have nowhere else to be in that time period.
Anyway, this girl walked up to the normal group of four people (me, Shannon, Tonya and Allister). She sits down and I start up a conversation. Before long she asks me where I'm from, and I naturally say, "Las Vegas." To which she responds without allowing any time to pass, "I was just in Massachusetts..." I didn't catch what else she said, because at this point, my brain completely stopped. Las Vegas is more than 2,000 miles away from Massachusetts, and I'm thinking "did she hear Boston? What the hell?" And everybody else is looking around like, what the hell just happened? And we're all laughing nervously. We got back on "track" and I said I grew up in Chatsworth, California. And the other person who wasn't part of the group asked me where I went to school.
Apparently he grew up there too. And if I had stayed another year, I likely would've known him at some point. Instead of being passing acquaintances in a college class. Sufficed to say, it wasn't long before I pointed out that Chatsworth is the porn capital of the States. We began discussing how it was a town secret, or that nobody knew about it. The class before us let out, and then someone said something about "parents not wanting their kids to grow up to be a fluffer." We all laughed really hard, and the kids coming out of the class were kind of confused. Too funny.
In class, we were discussing Canto 3, and we got to the first Contrapassos (punishments fits the crime) of the story. The Neutrals who chase a flag, get attacked by wasps, blood drips into their eyes, and down to the ground which is covered in worms. (Doesn't that sound a lot like Fear Factor to anyone else?) All the while, there are incomprehensible moans, groans, and languages being spoken in an incoherent babble.
After a student said "it doesn't sound so bad" the prof was quick to point out that it was quite unappealing to her. And somehow I managed to work in the comment "It's all downhill from here" which is a fantastic pun for the novel. Since the "Inferno" is a downhill trek through the pits of Hell. She (the prof) actually doubled over from laughter. Everybody laughed a little then groaned at the bad joke I made. What can I say? I'm the Prince of Bad Jokes. Great stuff!
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