I’m still frustrated with my professor for suggesting that pop fiction is Less Than and if we wanted to be good writers we should be reading the Great Classics partly just because ugh but also she approved of me reading Lord of the Rings which is Literally About The Value Of Stories That Aren’t Literature™️, where the Fellowship cope by singing deeply important, culturally-ingrained songs alongside Bilbo’s silly little poems, where the first Great person the hobbits meet (aside from Gandalf) is a guy whose whole deal is singing songs that hardly mean anything and he saves their lives twice with it (I understand why Tom Bombadill was cut from the movie but he is Thematically Relevant), where the world is literally saved by an undereducated gardener who hasn’t read the classics reminding Frodo of the stories they’ve shared because ultimately stories are a way we connect with the world around us and a way we find ourselves and keep ourselves and if you’re gonna smugly use me as an example of what my classmates “should” be reading it’s a hell of a thing to directly contradict a major theme of said thing, huh!! I am Literally majoring in storytelling and LotR was a big part of launching me on that path and a major major part of that emphasis is about stories that aren’t Literature ma’am did you know you have pushed perhaps my single biggest button
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