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Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-20, Period 2

Dream half-smiled at the class as they came in, which from him should be counted as an infectious grin.

"Hello, students. Welcome to your very last class that will focus on new material. Next week, you will devote both days to preparing your final projects."

"For today, though, there is work to be done. Literature students, please select a poem by an African author and write a few sentences in reaction. Classics students, you are to read a biography of the great writer Horace, and react to any of his surviving poems."

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Janet signed in for Classics and smiled back at Professor Dream.

Nadia signed in for Foreign Lit.

Final projects? Uh oh. Anders signs in for Classics, takes his seat, and immediately starts chewing on his pencil.

He'd be more freaked out if not for Professor Dream's half-smile.

Elizabeth signed in for foreign lit.

John signs in, not at all wierded out by events earlier in the week.

Hamlet signs in.

Turn stuff in, talk, etc.

"He's very depressing," said Janet, after she'd frowned at a few of Horace's poems. "Does it matter that everyone dies? I think how we live, or what we accomplish while living is more important."

Dream nodded. "That is true," he said. "But you must remember, times uncertain when he wrote, and human lives much shorter and darker. There was a certain comfort in knowing that Death was there,a companion to all at the end of days."

"He also wrote, Even if times are bad, they won't always be so:
for Apollo doesn't always tense his bow, but sometimes inspires the silent Muses. Which is uplifting, in a way."

"Sure, if you look at it that way," Anders said. "But if you think of it as a way to remind you to take advantage of every moment, it's not that depressing."

Nadia picked a poem about tomatos. That turned out to be really very creepy.

"It's about justice, or lack of justice. About blaming people for your problems even when it doesn't make sense. About . . . paranoia. I think that's the word. The people in the poem are paranoid."

"Ouologuem is paranoid, yes," Dream said. "But do you believe his paranoia may have reason behind it?"

"Actually, I meant the people in the town. But, yes, if everyone is blaming everyone else for things, then I think he would have a reason to be paranoid."

Elizabeth picked An Agony.

Her few sentences of reaction turned into a rant about apartheid, white supremacy, racial segregation and discrimination. The US military was probably mentioned disparingly on several occassions.

Hamlet picks You Speak to Me of 'Self'

"It's about searching for the true identity of the African people, that underneath the European facade lurks the true identity of the poor African people who live in suffering, and about the author entreating the reader to look for that identity. It's a worthy goal."

The professor has a few moments before Creature Languages.

"I need to return those books on ancient Hebrew to you before the end of the year," said Janet. "Unfortunately, I forgot them today. Can I bring them in the day of the final?"

Dream nodded. "Anytime before May 5 is fine. Thank you for being so conscientous."

"You're welcome," she said, smiling. "The books are very useful. They've helped a lot. So thanks."

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