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Feb. 16th, 2009 09:24 pmI just finished a paper. Gah. Hate writing papers.
But not even having papers will make me stop loving my school. Becase this week, the school is having this SymPOEsium thing, which is lectures and various things from lots of disciplines related to Poe and his world and the things he wrote about and so on.
This is awesome enough on its own. What's even better is that my American Lit teacher gave us the week off classes so we could go to lectures instead. But what is currently the most awesome is the lecture I went to today, about the philosphy of mind, basically truth in fiction and how close fiction has to be to truth and so on.
The lecturer also talked about various levels of truth. Like the various levels of canon in fandom. Well, he didn't actually use the term fandom, but he did use canon, and he gave us an example.
THE STAR WARS EXPANDED UNIVERSE.
I WENT TO AN ACADEMIC LECTURE AT MY SCHOOL AND TALKED ABOUT THE STAR WARS EU.
The lecturer was talking about the movies being primary canon and the books being secondary and how people could accept various levels of canon, and I was just sitting there trying not to explode of glee.
Seriously, HOW AWESOME IS THAT?
But not even having papers will make me stop loving my school. Becase this week, the school is having this SymPOEsium thing, which is lectures and various things from lots of disciplines related to Poe and his world and the things he wrote about and so on.
This is awesome enough on its own. What's even better is that my American Lit teacher gave us the week off classes so we could go to lectures instead. But what is currently the most awesome is the lecture I went to today, about the philosphy of mind, basically truth in fiction and how close fiction has to be to truth and so on.
The lecturer also talked about various levels of truth. Like the various levels of canon in fandom. Well, he didn't actually use the term fandom, but he did use canon, and he gave us an example.
THE STAR WARS EXPANDED UNIVERSE.
I WENT TO AN ACADEMIC LECTURE AT MY SCHOOL AND TALKED ABOUT THE STAR WARS EU.
The lecturer was talking about the movies being primary canon and the books being secondary and how people could accept various levels of canon, and I was just sitting there trying not to explode of glee.
Seriously, HOW AWESOME IS THAT?
