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Professional_Mood_10 t1_iyfdyyb wrote

In the words of my prof, "Y'know what, sometimes the curtains are just fucking blue... but we don't read trash in this class. So when the curtains are blue--it means something."

(And no, he didn't mean to make stuff up about the sybolism of blue curtains and snowballs-- he meant, that good books are meaty with ideas. They tell you about the values, the era, they tell you where the characters are coming from. They paint a meaningful scene when taken as a whole.)

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