1 February 2016: "Why was I there?!?" --a student in my ENGL 204 class, remembering when he was in third grade (!), and attended several plays based on Edgar Allan Poe stories.
It was hilarious to hear this now-young-adult talk about being scared by this decidedly inappropriate "edu-tainment." And he remembered vivid details: the sound of the heart-beat getting louder in "The Tell-Tale Heart," the sound of the monkey (who only appears once in the story, but whose appearance I always note) in "The Black Cat."
This also lead to a good (brief) conversation about realizing as an adult that you were exposed to some weirdly inappropriate things when you were a kid. For me, this was Little House on the Prairie, which had some pretty horrific episodes: Ma Ingalls about to cut her own leg off, Albert burning down the blind school (accidentally) which kill Mrs. Garvey and Mary's baby, the one with the mime... So weird!
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