Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/18, Period 2

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream nods in greeting to the students as they file in. An array of fresh fruit -- including plums, kumquats and starfruit as well as apples and bananas -- is offered in baskets at the front of the classroom.

Foreign Lit: Dream lectures on African literature for precisely half of the class.

Classics: Dream lectures on Roman mythology for the other half of the class.

At the end, Dream addresses all students as a group. "This is the final unit of new material for all of you. Next week, you will begin work on your end-of-term projects, which will be due on May 3. Each of you will be expected to handwave write a paper on one of the topics we have discussed in class; classics students may write in Latin, Greek or English, though you will be expected to refer to relevant texts in the original tongues if you write in English. I will expect proposals from each of you a week from today, on April 25."

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Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

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New in the tableau was Miss Agatha Clay, decked in labcoat and blonde Einstein hairdo, with a hunchbacked Sam Carter, working in a laboratory--make that a laboratory, a metal skeleton on the slab. Lightning thundered overhead as Sam cranked a lightning rod to the heavens.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

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In the shadows, Dream observed.

"Mrs. Shelley," was his only comment.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

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The lightning rod strained to meet the heavens, which were under as much turmoil as teens dealing with hormones. Lightning played overhead as thunder deafened. Dingbots huddled in the corners. In large glass bottles, the heads of Kawalsky, Janet, Kiki, and Sydney oversee the events and turn to talk to each other.

Everything was ready.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

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Purely to amuse himself, Dream flooded the room with strawberry jam. Thousands of wee, toothless sharks swam through the foot-deep jelly.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

The heads of his friends started bobbing along to the jamflood, eating as much as bodiless heads in jars can eat. Agatha started making corrections, and the Terminator now has a butterknife attatchment on each forefinger.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

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If there's a butterknife, there must be butter.

It rains from the ceiling in fat globs.

[OOC: I have never seen any Terminator movie . (No, really. Wuit looking at me that way.) Hence randomness.]

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

Agatha adapts the evil android robot to be... and now it has shoulder mounted toast launchers, belt fed from canisters in the torso. Hunch!Sam holds up a tattered umbrella to sheild the worst of the butter!rain.


[[You? = evil and uncultured. :D]]

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the umbrella turns into a patch of carpet, which everyone knows attracts buttered toast.

[OOC: Why, thank you.]

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

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As Hunch!Sam staged a strategic retreat, lightning flashed overhead, targeting the uplifted rod, energizing the laboratory, spinning gears, starting the Jacob's Ladders, and starting the process in motion.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

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Dream watched, though his attention was waning as he began to devote more of his awareness to the other students.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John woke at the second lightning strike as one of his books hit the floor, providing the thunder in his dream.