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During my extolling the virtues of quoting Machiavelli's The Prince during essays:

[livejournal.com profile] wolves8: Why did you read it?
[livejournal.com profile] clo: Because in the Smallville fandom everyone kept mentioning him in reference to Lex and one day I thought fine, I'll just read the bloody thing so I understand what they're on about.
[livejournal.com profile] wolves8 *blank* ... Smallville?
[livejournal.com profile] clo: ... Yes. It was fun! I was reading how to take over the world sitting beside this little old lady on the bus going home.
[livejournal.com profile] wolves8: I thought you were going to say because of "this novel" or something but ...Smallville?!

Tell her that Machiavelli relates fantastically to Smallville because she believes me not. Actually that Machiavelli relates well to *anything* in his awesomeness of Evil World Conquering: The Twelve Steps to Becoming All-Awesome and Not Getting Overthrown Like A Wuss. Because really, what can you *not* relate that back to?

What you also might've overheard around lunchtimeish, trying to make myself stop rewatching bits of the latest Doctor Who:

"FOR GODSSAKE, STOP PLAYING WITH DOCTOR WHO!" *pause* "TO ANYONE LISTENING, THAT CAME OUT WRONG."


*uses her most Machiavellian icon*

edit: *looking up when Lolita was banned and where* The Americans banned Lysistrata?!! That's *insane*. Hilarious but insane.

Ah the oppressedness of literature in the past. So glad I live in the twenty-first century.

Date: 2006-05-01 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com
The list of banned books in the US is ridiculous. I mean, they banned I don't know if it still is or not Catcher in the Rye for goodness sake! There's absolutely nothing wrong with that book except Holden being... well a teenager.

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