Writer's Block

 

Today's prompt- if I start writing, ideas will come. Which makes me think that the line from Field of Dreams started out as the author's prompt.

I wonder how many famous lines came from writers who were doing their best to think of something.

One thing that really annoys me- when someone claims that Moby Dick is great literature. It is not. Which goes for several other things high school students are forced to read. Like Cather in the Rye. Dum-dum-dum.

Which reminds me of the drunken college professor who taught the first three weeks of an English lit class about Beowulf and Chaucer. Not much of that last sentence is accurate because he always came twenty minutes late and left ten minutes early (that is if he showed up at all) and used the twenty minutes in between to tell us how easy we had it. When he was a student he had to read Beowulf in its original grimalese and that was nothing compared to how bad the Danes and the thanes had it. Did you know they didn't have sterile bandages? Well now I do because my medieval professor said so at least three times a day for two weeks. That's exactly what he taught. But I can't go on, I'm too snitty tonight to present him as he deserves.

I don't believe he was always that pathetic. I think reading the 'classics' turned him. How many times must he have tried to convince bright young minds that the Miller's Tale is funny only to be met by blank stares?

I guess the ideas aren't coming. In the old days I would toss this kind of rambling in the waste basket. Now that I have cyberspace to fill up, I guess I'll just post it as a blog.

Nancy Sherer

 

 


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