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Walking into his Ontologies of Death in the Modern World seminar in Page Rob this afternoon, English concentrator Maxwell Stone announced how excited he is to call any imagery erotic this upcoming semester.
“I think the image of leaves falling to the ground throughout this scene is… almost erotic. I’d even go so far as to call it Freudian,” shared Stone in his class discussion, referencing a passage in which an elderly man walks through his neighborhood reflecting on the changing seasons which foreshadow his death. “The closing of the neighbor’s window, as well. There’s an obvious sexual undertone which I think will be really interesting to examine.”
“Comparing this text to last week’s, there’s a common thread of sometimes subtle, sometimes very overt phallocentric imagery in the way that the authors develop their settings. The casino lights, the bed where the old man’s dog died, and even the way this author described the bathroom sink all have such a deeply erotic tone,” continued Stone, earning weird looks from his classmates who were wondering if he even knew what “erotic” meant. “I’m coming up with a ton of great ideas for my final paper already!”
At press time, the other English concentrators in class were busy categorizing each text as either Kafkaesque or Orwellian.
