11.23.2011

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read....but after three solid years of taking literature courses, Madeleine had nothing like a firm critical methodology to apply to what she read. Instead she had a fuzzy, unsystematic way of talking about books. It embarrassed her to hear the things people said in class. And the things she said. I felt that. It was interesting the way Proust. I liked the way Faulkner.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

3 comments:

thisanjali said...

woah that's me. i talk like that all the time...

being articulate in academic circles? a skill to be developed, not doubt....

x

SAM said...

Hahahahhhhaha me too! And I became an English major for that very same reason.

Home for Thanksgiving, my parents are asking about you! xo

katy-did said...

have you finished this book? i desperately want to talk to someone about it. and dissect in all of the fuzzy, unsystematic ways i know.