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Because staying
at home in bed all day
won't make you happy.
You need to get out
and meet people,
begin some
meaningful relationships.
Maybe if you
put yourself out there,
doing things you enjoy...
"Franny and Zooey,"
one of my favorites.
You've got good taste.
Well, welcome
to English 303,
the Modernists.
I'm Professor Harrison,
and you are a bunch of kids
who think you already
know everything
but haven't even got a clue
about what life is really like
beyond the ivy walls.
It's banal,
nauseating carousel
of responsibility and
disappointments, one after another.
But, my sweater
is soft and the rain
streaking down
the window is kinda lovely,
so I guess I won't
off myself just yet.
The Modernists,
especially Joyce and Wolff
were very big on stream of consciousness
techniques in their novels,
and you just got
your first lesson in it.
Would anyone
like to give it a try?
Say whatever
pops into your mind.
"Franny and Zooey,"
how about you?
Oh, I wouldn't know
what to say.
It's not difficult. You
just start with your name,
where you're from,
kinda go from there.
My name's Carrie Pilby,
I... well I was born in London
but I moved to New York
when I was 12
just after my mom died.
I guess I shouldn't
have said that,
'cause now everyone's feeling weird
about the girl whose mom died.
Like I'm Antigone
or Harry Potter, or...
Bambi or something. But...
I'm not a Greek tragedy
or a wizard.
And if I was a character
in a movie,
I'd like to be
Katherine Hepburn,
preferably in a movie where she gives
Spencer Tracy a run for his money.
But I can tell
I'm boring you now.
This is hard, harder than skipping
fourth and eighth grade.
But not as hard
as skipping second grade,
because going from pencil
to pen was pretty abrupt.
Excellent. If you want to
use pencil in my class,
you're more
than welcome.
Now, anyone else
wanna give a shot?
Carrie? Carrie?
I really believe
that if you do the things
on this list,
you're going to feel
a lot better about life.
I bet I won't.
So, prove it.
Prove to me that I don't
know how to do my job.
- You're a very odd man.
- Thank you.
That's the nicest compliment
I've had all day.
zooey
wizard
window
harrison
harder
feeling
compliment
streaking
happy
potter
grade
gives
sweater
everything
myself
harry
fourth
especially
second
hepburn
because
lovely
london
people
things
excellent
about
bunch
boring
enjoy
guess
anyone
english
their
whatever
eighth
bambi
another
abrupt
greek
banal
class
already
difficult
relationships
tracy
favorites
believe
tragedy
begin
consciousness
carrie
going
moved
after
beyond
carousel
walls
katherine
pretty
first
welcome
lesson
skipping
yourself
wolff
antigone
joyce
maybe
meaningful
kinda
modernists
whose
money
doing
character
thank
movie
franny
weird
nicest
nauseating
pencil
preferably
professor
better
prove
really
responsibility
novels
something
spencer
would
wanna
start
staying
disappointments
stream
taste
techniques
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