I do remember you saying that, actually. And if I laughed I'm sure it was because others were. Because I remember thinking what you said made a lot more sense. In fact, I don't remember the Santa Claus bit at all; just your interpretation of it.
i'd never even once considered that that poem could possibly be about santa clause--let alone that it *was* by some authoritative sanction--until i read this just now. it works, i suppose, but i also took the poem in a trenchant manner. maybe it was because my first conversation about the poem was bringing it up in AP european history as a sort of abstracted-hyperbolic anthem for high school scholarship, at which point my teach replied that it was what got him through law school.
what i mean by that is, i don't think santa clause got him through law school.
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hahaha!~ ^_^
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and he went to private school too, so his word is truth.
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i'd never even once considered that that poem could possibly be about santa clause--let alone that it *was* by some authoritative sanction--until i read this just now. it works, i suppose, but i also took the poem in a trenchant manner. maybe it was because my first conversation about the poem was bringing it up in AP european history as a sort of abstracted-hyperbolic anthem for high school scholarship, at which point my teach replied that it was what got him through law school.
what i mean by that is, i don't think santa clause got him through law school.
funny how close the comic and tragic, though.
take care,
jessi
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