Boom!

( Behind this cut, you can read about how Holly made a total nerd of herself in her Gothic lit class today. )

I'd gotten a mocha before that Gothic lit class, because I'd been yawning throughout my previous class. It was not only not what I'd ordered, but a bad mocha anyway--but hey, I'm used to that sort of thing around here, no matter how nicely the Starbucks people advertise themselves on the side of their paper cups. The sugar and caffeine seemed to just make me silly, but I think I would've found the first part of our class amusing nonetheless.

Brad had a couple of people read "Kubla Khan," and then said they could've read it more excitedly. " 'Beware! Beware!' " he said, and recited a bit more of the poem in his more-excited manner. "They could hardly go a line without using an exclamation point," he said. "In fact, during the Romantic period exclamation points were almost used up for all time. Yeah, we almost ran out. Luckily, the Victorians after them were rather staid, and didn't use many."

He's rarely that silly; I enjoyed it very much.

Then he told us that he'd tried to sum up Romantic poetry, or at least this poem, in five words, and the five words he'd come up with were "Boom! let's have demon sex!"

I think even people who hadn't had a lot of sugar and caffeine found that amusing.