(stud)y-ing F/rench
Aug. 15th, 2006 06:47 pmI, um, didn't go to French yesterday. I kind of...skipped it.
Though I much prefer
stealthmuffin's perspective--rejecting the narrow, bourgeois, Western interpretation of "going to class" in favor of embracing the absent presence:
Ah, so this would be the pragmatic sense of "going to French class," in which the use of the text creates the mode of "ignoring French." We pragmatists see the overriding need not to be distracted by such things as professors and their interpretations of "attendance." "French class" as such thus has only the meaning of the last roll of the semantic bus tire over its textbook, and unless the bus driver backs up to see what it was he ran over, it will not occur again.
Now if you'll excuse me, the cat has several demanding interpretations of the absence of food.
Though I much prefer
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Ah, so this would be the pragmatic sense of "going to French class," in which the use of the text creates the mode of "ignoring French." We pragmatists see the overriding need not to be distracted by such things as professors and their interpretations of "attendance." "French class" as such thus has only the meaning of the last roll of the semantic bus tire over its textbook, and unless the bus driver backs up to see what it was he ran over, it will not occur again.
Now if you'll excuse me, the cat has several demanding interpretations of the absence of food.