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English Majors GK:……after this message. SS: What you staring at me for? ---- Do I know you? GK: I'm gazing at you in rapt wonder because I'm writing a sonnet
about you. SS: You are? GK: Sure. SS: A sonnet? GK: Got the first four lines already. So unexpected, her, shining on a dusty Minnesota street, SS: You wrote that about me? Who are you? GK: I'm an English major, so if anything needs expressing, I'm
your man. SS: I never met anybody like you before----- TR (RICO): Hey! Babes! Whatcha doin? I been waitin for you inside
the store! Who's this gink? SS: He's an English major. TR: Oh? Where's his uniform and his sword? Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
SS: He's writing me a sonnet, Rico. TR (RICO): A sonnet, huh? Well, here's what I think about sonnets
----- (SIX QUICK SHOTS, TR BLOWS SMOKE FROM BARREL) There. Looks like
your sonnet's got some holes in it. SS: I'm tired of you and your violence, Rico. You can't put violence
in a scrapbook and take it out twenty years from now and look at it, can
you----- TR (RICO): Come on, baby. Don't go off with an English major! GK: Don't feel bad. It happens all the time. That's because women
respond to the power of the English language when it's used by a trained
professional---- "Had I the embroidered cloths of heaven, I would
lay the cloths under your feet. But I, being poor, have only my dreams.
I have laid my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread
on my dreams." SS: Ohhhhhh-------- my English major----- GK: A message from the Professional Organization of English Majors. © Garrison Keillor 2002 |
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An Interview with Heather Masse
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