All my students owe them thanks for their honesty and bravery. So, I read only a few letters in the short time between classes that I was killing in the library. Virginia's is so eloquent and her sentence structures so incredible, from the short punchy declaratives to some that are almost confusing at first read. I can't wait until the summer so that I can read books and write some stuff with nothing hanging over me. I wouldn't mind going south and living in the heat of Tennessee and on a farm.
College is worthwhile but it is also inhibiting in terms of creating art.
But more so it is worthwhile. It is guidance, like going before the tribunal and being ripped apart so you never grow slovenly. Think if you became slovenly how awful that would be, to be a primate of a sort, that is if in fact primates were actually slovenly. Jared's and Sarah's postings really struck a chord in me, and they take us way back to some things we were talking about very early in the semester. I'll admit that submitting to the authority of the Powers That Be does seem contradictory to creativity.