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escapingdarwin t1_j6kp8qp wrote

Reply to comment by lucia-pacciola in The 10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader by swedish_librarian

I almost failed world literature in college because I stubbornly continued to share MY interpretations of “classic” works on essay exams.

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lucia-pacciola t1_j6krch4 wrote

Maybe your professor didn't believe you should be allowed to make your own interpretations, and was marking you down for not mindlessly regurgitating his own opinions back to him.

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escapingdarwin t1_j6kskra wrote

That’s exactly what happened and regurgitating the common interpretations of Flaubert was such a hallow victory!

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