Patrick's review
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels
by Henry James
Patrick's review
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels by Henry James
Patrick's review
I had to write a paper on this in college, which I titled as my thesis statement, "The Governess Hallucinates a lot or Something." Obviously, I got an A and the professor wrote in red pen, next to the grade, "Nice title." Another great memory of that class was going to it at noon one day after driving from the school 4 hours to Chicago to see Pavement, then 4 hours back. I was pretty slap happy after being up all night, and the prof asked if anyone remembered what the name of Henry James' school of thought was (pragmatism or puritanism or something). This Asian kid said, "Drunk driving?" I guess he misunderstood the question, but I burst out laughing and couldn't stop for like ten minutes and had to have my head buried in my arms on the desk the rest of the period. That was fucking awesome. That prof was weird though. This other time, near the end of class, he said to us, looking at the clock, "Now I'm going to give you what the Boston Stran...more
