10.02.03 | In Passing...

10.02.03

Submitted by Obsidiana on Fri, 10/03/2003 - 2:29pm. Bizarre

I was walking in the general direction of the dorms with a whole bunch of people from my Intro to Acting class, talking about our professor, who almost always acts like he's on something. One kid said "...and today, he was talking about the music of speech or whatever? I swear soon he's gonna say 'I can taste purple!'"

We were stopped by a wandering English professor, who told us at great length about the literary device that involves using or describing colours in ways that you can't actually experience them. I forget what the actual device is called, but he ended the speech with "...and I'm on sabatical! Imagine the lecture you would've gotten if I were teaching!"

We were victims of a walk-by lecturing.

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Walk by lecturing...

Posted by ParU on Sat, 10/18/2003 - 5:50pm.

Well, in a way, In Passing is the result of that sort of thing. Cause I am constantly lecturing my kids, who despite having feigned 'turning me off' actually paid attention several times, thus my daughter was able to get into Berkeley (cause she knew several obscure things at appropriate times) and then lived in the house where she started In Passing.

Cause it wouldn't have been the same site if she'd lived at home and went to the JC...

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That reminds me of Chomsky: "

Posted by pilferkitty on Fri, 10/10/2003 - 11:39pm.

that reminds me of Chomsky: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."

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Eeek.

Posted by straylighter on Sat, 10/04/2003 - 10:08pm.

I don't think synesthesia is a literary device...it's a condition. One I think I'd love to have, judging by the descriptions I've read. :)

I think my voice would be purple. Maybe. Or mud brown!

Obsidiana, are you majoring in theatre? Because I'm currently on the hunt for a good theatre school! If you have any urge to talk yours up, I'd love to hear from you...big_empty_space at hotmail dot com.

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Yes, I'm a theatre major. No

Posted by Obsidiana on Mon, 10/06/2003 - 4:03pm.

Yes, I'm a theatre major. No, I have no urge at all to talk up the theatre program at my school. I might, however, compile a list of schools where I know people--I mean, schools that are good, and e-mail it to you. Of course, they'll pretty much all be in upstate NY, which might be a bit farther than you want to go.

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Eee!

Posted by Kris the Girl on Sat, 10/04/2003 - 9:58am.

That is hilarious! If that happened at my school, I'm just sure the wandering professor would be from the pharmacy department or something, and the lecture would've involved...the chemical makeup of purple dyes in some pills, and the flavoring of each. My school is so boring.
By the way...I think it'd be fun for us to comment on each other's blogs, since we have them. And by "us," I mean the collective, not just Obs and myself.

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Double eee!

Posted by steff on Sat, 10/04/2003 - 10:07am.

or, rather, eep! don't start talking to me about purple dyes on some pills! *begins to itch demonically all over* gah. GAH!!!, i tell you! *scratch scratch scratch*

yes, this is fun. obs, you do ya think you could turn him in to the campus police? either for the lecturing assault itself, or for "lecturing while sabbating".

oh, and, "synaesthesia" is what you're looking for. http://www.users.muohio.edu/daysa/

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Posted by Saint on Mon, 10/06/2003 - 9:33am.

"don't start talking to me about purple dyes on some pills!"

I've been to mushroom mountain--once or twice but who's countin--but nothing compares to these green and yellow purple pills...

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