my fate is in your hands
May. 3rd, 2006 12:20 pm( pros and cons )
So.
[Poll #721732]
[1] Professor Ralph Williams, Resident Genius. Speaks speaks a dozen languages (two of them imaginary), likes to pace and rant, writes his syllabus like poetry ("Engaged reading; consistant presence in class (without which, no grade); two essays, perhaps a midterm, surely a final"), has an accent I'm pretty sure he invented himself. Visibly enthusiastic about the literature he teaches, and it's a contagious enthusiasm.
HOWEVER. His imaginary accent is whiny and drawn-out, he speaks with unnatural levels pitch variation, he likes rhetorical questions ("late papers will not be graded, does everyone understannnnnnnnd, is that finnnnnne, Yay Nay?, and as for office houuuuuurs..."), and (worst of all) he's subject to frequent transports to mystical bliss. No really. He loves iterature so much that it transports him to another plane of existance in the middle of his lectures, during which he speaks in foreign tongues (mostly Italian).
Basically you either love him or you hate him, and though I'm sure I could learn to love him my first reaction is to hate him.
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Sorry for all the scholastics lately, will try to make up for it with completely non-academic fanfic.
So.
[Poll #721732]
[1] Professor Ralph Williams, Resident Genius. Speaks speaks a dozen languages (two of them imaginary), likes to pace and rant, writes his syllabus like poetry ("Engaged reading; consistant presence in class (without which, no grade); two essays, perhaps a midterm, surely a final"), has an accent I'm pretty sure he invented himself. Visibly enthusiastic about the literature he teaches, and it's a contagious enthusiasm.
HOWEVER. His imaginary accent is whiny and drawn-out, he speaks with unnatural levels pitch variation, he likes rhetorical questions ("late papers will not be graded, does everyone understannnnnnnnd, is that finnnnnne, Yay Nay?, and as for office houuuuuurs..."), and (worst of all) he's subject to frequent transports to mystical bliss. No really. He loves iterature so much that it transports him to another plane of existance in the middle of his lectures, during which he speaks in foreign tongues (mostly Italian).
Basically you either love him or you hate him, and though I'm sure I could learn to love him my first reaction is to hate him.
***
Sorry for all the scholastics lately, will try to make up for it with completely non-academic fanfic.