Ms. Best (Advising 9th grade English class about how to and how not to write an essay):
"Bring on the bears. If you're going to bring on the bears, bring on the bears. Don't bring on all the little dancing trolls first."
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bring on the bears
Small break from long story: Here is some advice circa 1992 for all you dissertation writers out there, from my 9th grade English teacher.
Ms. Best (Advising 9th grade English class about how to and how not to write an essay):
"Bring on the bears. If you're going to bring on the bears, bring on the bears. Don't bring on all the little dancing trolls first."
Ms. Best (Advising 9th grade English class about how to and how not to write an essay):
"Bring on the bears. If you're going to bring on the bears, bring on the bears. Don't bring on all the little dancing trolls first."
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Wow... those are definitely dancing trolls! I think the corollary lesson here is that if, in fact, you don't have a bear, don't be ashamed to display your dancing trolls.
But the dancing trolls distract the reader from the few and rather weak bears that you have!
Heh, that's the idea.
What if you set up one particular dancing troll as a particularly fierce and magical troll with terrible powers and then have the bear come and stomp on the troll. Then everyone would think, "Oh wow! I thought that bear was kinda weak, but I changed my mind after I saw it rip apart that super-troll."
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