I can't remember if I ever had a European history class, much less what was taught in it.
Sophomore year! Sister Timothy! I remember it well.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kristen - Sep 28, 2010 7:31:27 am PDT #26501 of 30001
Frankenbuddha - Sep 28, 2010 7:33:36 am PDT #26502 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I may have learned about Luther in European history, but I remember more from reading the play Luther in a high school English lit class.
JZ - Sep 28, 2010 7:37:19 am PDT #26503 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Gah, Jesse, that's a total ew. I somehow completely blocked that part out from my memory of the series. Actually, I can't remember much of any of the plots, just the characters: Mona and Ms. Madrigal and Mouse and Mary Ann (I don't think I can ever re-read the last novel because of her).
Damn, but that's a lot of M's.
Amy - Sep 28, 2010 7:37:45 am PDT #26504 of 30001
Because books.
It was weird to read through it and think about exactly how I came to know the various items.
The quiz punked out for me after question #5, but I was thinking how everything I know about Judaism I learned from the All of a Kind Family books I read as a kid. I knew much more about Purim and the Sabbath than I did about what being Presbyterian was supposed to mean, in fact.
Strix - Sep 28, 2010 7:40:19 am PDT #26505 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I knew about the Reformation in high school, also about transubstantiation, but mostly through my voracious reading of historical fiction.
In college, I definitely had classes that went into the Ref in depth (studying the Reformation introduced me to the concept of defenestration, a word and concept that tickles me to no end, that we have a specific word that refers to death by tossing one out a window) and then studying medieval lit and history...
Well, I know an awful lot about Catholicism, but my views are pretty damned...uh, medieval. I know tons from Roman times to the 19th century, and then it's all "many nuns took off their habits and no one uses Latin anymore, dammit."
I can thank fiction for my broad general knowledge of world religions, for the most part.
Jesse - Sep 28, 2010 7:41:12 am PDT #26506 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I somehow completely blocked that part out from my memory of the series.
What's funny about that is that it's an amnesia storyline! Good times.
Strix - Sep 28, 2010 7:41:36 am PDT #26507 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hrm. Most of what I know of Judaism goes from the OT to the Rennaissance, too, actually.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2010 7:43:17 am PDT #26508 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are the words "tear" in "I'm gonna tear him a new one" and "A tear slid down his face" pronounced differently?
JZ - Sep 28, 2010 7:45:04 am PDT #26509 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yes - the first is "tare" and the second is "teer".
eta: Unless the second sentence is from a horror novel, in which case it may in fact be a "tare" tear.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2010 7:47:11 am PDT #26510 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is that an American thing, or do I speak funny inside my head?