Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 21, 2011 21:36:43 GMT -5
I had a mild Canadian professor for an American Lit class. Sweet as can be and very Canadian. As in polite and never trashed your ideas or theories. You wouldn't have expected it but the guy was such a troll for awkward reactions from his students whenever sex was mentioned. He would purposefully read aloud passages about sex or desire, pause, and then ask, "So what is going on here?" I specifically remember it during Walt Whitman. Whitman was obviously masturbating (with his soul) but nobody wanted to say anything. The same went for the poem were the girl watches the young men bathe. Nobody would want to answer or explain what was going on (BECAUSE IT SEEMED SO DAMNED OBVIOUS) so there would be a loooong awkward silence.
He also would preface things with "I think you guys can understand what is going on here if you stretch your imaginations." And then proceed to trollishly read aloud passages from Moby Dick that could be sexually construed. And then not explain anything about what he just read.