Posted by Coxon on September 29, 1997 at 22:51:37:
I've only been on the Internet for about a week now and the Jolly Roger seems to be really incredible.
Thanks for actually showing me that there are people out there that want some realy literature out
there. Oh, I read the " Catcher in the Rye for the Grunge Generation" gee, what a great book, an
instant classic. I'm seventeen and that book made me laugh at the sheer studpidity of Andrea Marr
and everyone else in it. I guess I read it because I needed some kind of escape from my International
Baccaleaurate English class run open mindedly closedly by my left wing feminist teacher. There are
scores of incredible novels, poems, etc. on the IB booklist, but my school chooses, for the most part,
the stupid ones, about the fact that white people suck, and have so much profoundness and feeling
that you could just drown in it. The AP class at the other high school in our town that offers advanced
English gets to read real literature. Apparently my teacher seems to think that I'm sort of a decent
writer, so I'm one of her nominees for NCTE writing contest. She hated the story I submitted to her.
Honestly, it wasn't very well written, but it wasn't a bunch of profound metaphoric babble that she
would have wanted. When I want to push the envelope her way I'll kill myself. I don't know why I
picked Coxon, except it's the last name of Graham Coxon, guitarist for Blur, which happens to be the
greatest group ever put on earth. Damon Albarn, singer for Blur, is one of my biggest influences. He
and Jane Austen. My teacher doesn't like her much, so there's another reason for liking Jane.
Anyways, I'm starting to type nonsense, so I'll end it here with one question: How did you get kick
out of Oates's writing class?