I may expire in amusement over here...

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I'm not actually laughing at a student - I swear, I'm not. More tickled than anything else. I lent Crystal my copy of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' a little while ago; being earnest, she decided she was going to do a book review for me. I thought I'd sufficiently explained 'magical realism' to her when we were talking about it, but she's taken a more literal interpretation.

Her take is that most of the characters in the book are mutants.

I mean, my one or two lonely college English course are what, almost a decade in the past now, but even I can tell just how... well, cool that is. Ororo, you ought to find a way to touch on this in your advanced class this year. I mean, we're always saying how surreal our lives are - why not the mutant experience as magical realism?

I think I'm going to... not mark, obviously, but write up some comments on this paper. Every so often I forget just how interesting the kids can be if you take the time to stop and listen to them.