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Stegopossum t1_ixtj5f5 wrote

My favorite English teacher in college was from Oxford, Mississippi and he would see Faulkner all the time around town but especially on the main square around the courthouse where Bill would stand for hours staring at the building and sipping from a tall glass of whiskey. He was actually writing, in his mind, as he stood. Everyone knew who he was and even the children knew not to bother him. My teacher went on to be a Shakespeare scholar and a Faulkner scholar. He filled up two blackboards one day with family trees of F’s characters and the interesting intermarriages between them.

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ur-socks-sir t1_ixtjwvf wrote

Sorry, I know this doesn't have much to do with your story there, but your post reminded me of it. I met my new dentist two weeks ago, he said I looked like an English teacher. As a creative writing major, this was a nice compliment.

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Stegopossum t1_ixtonwg wrote

Learn the proper numbering system of the teeth and discuss them that way and he’ll think you’re a genius. It was perceptive for him to identify you that way but dentists do have the advantage of studying people closely. I should finish my master’s in Eng but even if I did nobody could guess from my appearance which is like an old truckdriver which is not wrong.

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