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I'm doing a group presentation on a work of (sort of) psychoanalytic criticism of a bunch of novels and memoirs and other texts, and my group partners don't believe in subtext. Like...at all. WHY DO THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO ME.

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lc, I can only assume you kicked a LOT of babies in a previous life.

Like, a LOT.

I've met people like that. It is so frustrating. My sympathies.

I.

What.

Can you -- idk, do a presentation on how the criticism is different if you do and don't accept subtextual readings? I mean, not that you asked for help, but I'm like. WHAT.

Isn't it great when your classmates have only ever take one or two other classes in English?

Er, the subject, not the language. My ESL classmates have not been disappointing, except the one who talked really quickly and I couldn't parse her accent.

So, um, how are they doing this project at all? I once had to do poetry analysis with somone like that and they also didn't believe that the poet would "know all those other poems" that he was referencing. Yes, it was TS Eliot.

But - but - he had footnotes! *whimpers, moves away*

I can't even think of anything to say to that. Well, except this: DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

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