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That's so nice, ComeBackZinc.

Do you have a gluten allergy?

Yes, the Julie Taymor version. It's very smart, smarter than the amount of credit it receives. I've been wanting to see her version of The Tempest with Helen Mirren as Prospero.

Because of The Hobbit!!!

YES! I tried to start reading the first book, and within a few chapters George R.R. Martin used the phrase "her down-there place." YOU MEAN A VAGINA?1 What is wrong with you?

@Marlowe Probably most adaptations of Stephen King paperback novels.

You would be really surprised how many people have not read Richard III. The reason I know this is because "now is the winter of our discontent" is always attributed to Sean Connery somehow.

I thought this thread was going to be serious, and now I am dying with laughter, especially at "I want to be a raper."

I feel like I have pockets of information, and everything between those pockets is just empty. I can't think of things specifically except when I mentioned I've never read Jane Eyre in another thread, but I know there are a million things. I'll probably remember later in the thread.

MacBeth has two of my three favorite lines from any Shakespeare play. My favorite non-Macbeth scene, so as to not potentially spoil something for you, is from King Lear when he gets totally naked and starts talking to chairs as if they're his daughters then runs out into the storm and screams, "Blow, you cataracts and hurricanoes!" Like, dude, you're old and wrinkly and totally naked. Get it together.

Yeah, really. I was raised as an Atheist. The amount of information I know about the Bible = 0. How much it handicapped me in my Dante class = 100000000000. At one point, the professor was like, "notice how the lord's prayer has been modified," and everyone started reciting the lord's prayer. I was so freaked out. That's what you get for going to public school in the Southern Ohio, though.

I love both, but it is kind of interesting that Oscar Wao won the Pulitzer, IMHO. When I think of other recent Pulitzer Prize winning novels from the past few years, Oscar Wao seems to be kind of a dud compared to Kavalier and Clay, Intepreter of Maladies (so fabulous and underrated,) or Middlesex. I think as testimonial literature, it's one of the best. Best fiction of 2008? Maybe not. I feel like it is the ugly girl that crashed the party, but they let her stay anyway.

So jealous of anyone accepted to UTA! I didn't apply because my research interests don't fit at all, but I love Austin. The most amazing city!

I LOVED David Eggers script for Where the Wild Things Are. Oh my god, it made me cry, cry, cry something horrible.

When I use iChat without my glasses, my eyes cross.

Yeah, that's great, MichaelK. The universe has ways of rewarding patience (sometimes.)

I'm guessing it is MichaelK who just posted his acceptance in the 0% Confidence thread.

Yep. We're on fire.

One of my LOR writers, who is a GREAT professor, had a tendency to just circle things in my papers and write "NO." Not even like, "this isn't right." When I got my first noted paper back, I was like, "HE HATES ME, HE IS MY SEMINAR PROFESSOR AND HE HATES ME!!!"

An unfunded MA feels like a rejection to me. I don't even want it.

Yes, so bad. I hated it, too.

I like the old and new versions of The Importance of Being Earnest. All of the Studio Ghibli book adaptations are amazing: Ponyo, Tales from Earthsea, Howl's Moving Castle. I keep trying to get my boyfriend to watch Howl's Moving Castle with me, but he keeps refusing. I also love Clueless (guilty pleasure) as an adaptation of Emma. Actually, I think that 1990's Beverly Hills is the perfect setting for that plot. I also have a spot in my heart for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, but it's not awesome.

Holy shit, that is SO rude. I hope it wasn't phrased exactly like that. :/

Maybe not. Don't take anything I say seriously.

The story about the pig (you know what I'm talking about,) HORRIFYING! I was like, "this can't be real," but turns out that pigs do that pretty often according to the Internet.