Two Authors, Twenty "Writers"

So yesterday Paul McComas, one of Prof Dintenfass' first students, apparently some kind of published author, spoke to our Fiction Writing class.

I'm 30 pages behind, at this point, by-the-way. C'mon inspiration! C'mon double sixes! I'm not picky.

Anyways, he was pretty intelligent, but annoying. He did a few readings (or, as he called them, "performances") from his various works, inflecting his voice like crazy, adding hand gestures, pacing around the room, and doing prettymuch anything else he could have done to make it clear that he thinks his writing can't stand on its own. Performance Art Theorists can be pretty annoying.

Also, his novel is about the rejuvinating powers of nature. They are pretty rejuvinating, and all that, but #1, that's really cliche, and #2, where does he think that the idea of "escaping society" and going into the wild comes from? Aliens?

Twain would have smacked him up a bit, if he weren't so busy spinning in his Spinomatic^TM grave.

O.k, time to eat.