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Academic jargon abuse, oh my! My skills are mad skillz.
In my defense, I was on no sleep.
TA: So you write?
MHC: Ah... a little poetry, which isn't terribly good and some derivativefiction. Um.
TA: Oh! Really? What kind of derivative fiction?
MHC: Er... well, at the moment I'm attempting a reworking of the Superman story reconciling several 'subtextual readings' of the various texts, including religious and queer interpretations. I'm interested in looking at will to power in a patriarchal context, as it relates to the ideologically opposed characters Lex Luthor and Clark Kent, and how such religious and queer readings can expose the similarities in their positions, and explode the myth of the hero and villain. Particularly the plurality of the hero (Clark Kent, Superman and Kal El) is an interesting contrast to Lex Luthor's unified persona. Witness how in Smallville, this becomes problematic for the hero's position as arbitrary- *MHC looks around* Um...
TA: Right.
Class: ...
TA: So, Jane. You said that you write as well?
Jane: Yes. I'm currently working on my first screenplay. It's a kind of dark, romantic comedy with, like, references to the work of physical comedians such as Chaplin and Carey.
MHC: ...
Yes. This did happen. Yes. I did use air quotes.
No. I didn't make much sense.
TA: So you write?
MHC: Ah... a little poetry, which isn't terribly good and some derivativefiction. Um.
TA: Oh! Really? What kind of derivative fiction?
MHC: Er... well, at the moment I'm attempting a reworking of the Superman story reconciling several 'subtextual readings' of the various texts, including religious and queer interpretations. I'm interested in looking at will to power in a patriarchal context, as it relates to the ideologically opposed characters Lex Luthor and Clark Kent, and how such religious and queer readings can expose the similarities in their positions, and explode the myth of the hero and villain. Particularly the plurality of the hero (Clark Kent, Superman and Kal El) is an interesting contrast to Lex Luthor's unified persona. Witness how in Smallville, this becomes problematic for the hero's position as arbitrary- *MHC looks around* Um...
TA: Right.
Class: ...
TA: So, Jane. You said that you write as well?
Jane: Yes. I'm currently working on my first screenplay. It's a kind of dark, romantic comedy with, like, references to the work of physical comedians such as Chaplin and Carey.
MHC: ...
Yes. This did happen. Yes. I did use air quotes.
No. I didn't make much sense.