h o m e l e s s | considering.

[revolter]

You can't read a SparkNote for an exam, it's cheating.

Portrait of a Lady is wonderful, you should give it a chance. It's not just called masterpiece literature for nothing, you know.

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Matilda! Oh my childhood!

[giveadragonsomelove]

What if the books totally boring tough, yo? Can't we SparkNotes it then?

:D

[revolter]

Books aren't boring, books are wonderful.

[abitofearth]

What on earth is a SparkNote?

[revolter]

Something terrible that sums a wonderful novel into a page of summary that doesn't do it any justice.

omg matilda. i was... just... ranting... about how badly i wanted one at c&c...

[alldeduction]

There's more of worth to read if you can escape from 'literature'.

There's no point retaining knowledge that will only crowd out what's important.

Really? :D

[revolter]

I read everything.

I love literature. I love imagining the words becoming real.

this is amazing

[secondguessing]

I still can't grasp the purpose of reading a summary instead of reading the real thing, it seems so . . . impersonal.

:D thank you

[revolter]

And degrading to the author and the novel. It's Henry James, he's so wonderful. I can't see why she'd do that.

gently seconding the come to cnc

[futurebatwoman]

Oh come on, that's not cheating. It's thinking creatively.

I am looking over there rn :D

[revolter]

It's cheating, she has to read the book.

o-oh my god

[truffulacide]

You read that? That's some awfully tall reading material for such a tiny kid.

:D

[revolter]

I'm six and a half.

[ that's not tiny :| ]

[tinfoil_angel]

[Excuse Karl, he's trying to compute the fact that he is looking at MATILDA.]

[revolter]

[ shying away. stranger danger, she'll be here behind her book. ]

[dear_guppy]

But how can your mun not like books and stories?

[There's a shy boy watching you carefully, Matilda. He's dressed in shorts and a shirt.]

Um...Sorry if I'm interrupting you...

[revolter]

She likes them but...I don't think she planned her time well for this exam.

[magicalworld]

Oh yeah? I don't think a story about a picture sounds like much of a masterpiece. I haven't heard of any blockbuster movies or toy lines or big merchandise based on it! How good can it be if it doesn't have a big marketing blitz attached to it?

[revolter]

It's not about a picture, it's about a woman and the time she lives in and the things she goes through.

Seconding that invite to Cape&Cowl omg

[clement]

Do you also like poetry?

you all are so nice!!

[revolter]

Oh yes, I love poetry. I read many books of poems in the library.

[danceswithwater]

There's better things to do than read.

[revolter]

...Maybe -

[ don't insult reading, Arya ;; ]

But her test is about reading the book.

[futureleader]

SparkNotes aren't cheating! Even advanced English scholars use them.

[revolter]

I think those scholars might have also read the book at least once.

[ she hopes so. How will they be scholars otherwise? ]

!!!

[burnmythoughts]

We could never get away with that. ...That's probably a good thing.

:D

[revolter]

Probably. She should try reading it, it's so wonderfully written she'll probably enjoy it but she's not listening to me.

hey matilda wanna be an x-man

[abetterway]

They never listen, you know. It's a shame.

tiny!heroine!

[revolter]

I suppose it's worth trying. I don't understand, she likes books so she must know that she needs to read them and not their summary.

come to c&c to be with me X(

[unfalteringly]

Masterpiece literature? [ He's never heard of this piece of literature of which you speak. Clearly not much of a masterpiece if it doesn't still exist in Panem :| ]

/runs to

[revolter]

They're books, classic books, usually considered to be a very good reading. I read quite a lot of them and I almost always loved them all.

MATILDAAAAAA

[schrodingerscat]

Mmphmmrt mmr mmma mmammph?

\o/

[revolter]

...I don't think I can understand you -

[ this fais forever. ]