Comments | smash_logs: take a look, it's in a book

makes_sea in smash_logs

take a look, it's in a book

Nov 11, 2011 22:23

Who: Kyogre and you. It's like Free Willy but in a class and nothing at all like Free Willy
What: ANCIENT LITERATURE CLASS #1
Where: Kyogre's classroom
When: Friday, 11/11, during the same time slot as Ceramics.
Warnings: Language is highly possible, knowing the potty mouths that attend this school >:|

( I CAN GO ANYWHERE )

kyogre (pokemon), apple kid (mother), lash (advance wars), rhys/rhyperior (pokemon), !class log

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INTROS makes_sea November 12 2011, 03:24:00 UTC

Tell us a little about yourself!

Re: INTROS notstevejobs November 12 2011, 05:25:38 UTC

Oh look, everyone. It's Apple Kid.

"I'm Apple Kid," said Apple Kid. "I'm from Twoson in Eagleland. I speak English, FORTRAN, C, C++, BASIC, DOS, JAVA, HTML, PERL, and several other computer languages. I'm here because I need an English credit."

Well, at least he's truthful.

makes_sea November 15 2011, 02:37:33 UTC

Better an English credit than an art credit.

"I'm not at all acquainted with computer languages. How interesting."

things_go_boom November 12 2011, 09:06:07 UTC

"I'm here because I wanna see which of the two classes is better."

Lash was very truthful.

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PASSAGE makes_sea November 12 2011, 03:40:40 UTC

"Poetry in general seems to have sprung from two causes, each of them lying deep in our nature. First, the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons; and no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated. We have evidence of this in the facts of experience. Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies. The cause of this again is, that to learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general; whose capacity, however, of learning is more limited. Thus the reason why men enjoy seeing a likeness is, that in contemplating it they find themselves learning or inferring, and saying perhaps, 'Ah, that is he.' For if you happen not to have seen the original, the pleasure will be due not to the imitation as such, ( ... )

Re: PASSAGE notstevejobs November 12 2011, 05:29:44 UTC

And so Apple Kid decided to try and suss out the meaning behind this passage.

"The author is saying that we all want to imitate things. When you're a little kid, you do what other people around you are doing. This is what poetry comes out of, a need in people to imitate what others are doing. The other reason has to do with artistry. So, it's a little like inventing. Inventors see one way of doing something, and try to come up with a new way of doing it. It's like imitation, but with a new rhythm to it."

Brilliant. Give this man an A.

makes_sea November 15 2011, 02:53:18 UTC

Interesting that he chose to bring it back to inventing.

Unfortunately for you, Apple Kid, these responses aren't graded. Just little comments are handed back.

On the right track!

Re: PASSAGE shootgeodudes November 17 2011, 00:19:38 UTC

"While I find the passage is certainly full of thought and intellect, the writer puts too much thought into imitation. I will admit I am not human, so my view may be different, but I find that the primal source of poetry is in appreciation and beauty. Much more in tune with Aristotle's ideas on the 'lesser' harmony."

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