Review: Wed, Oct 4

Henson Blanco's log.
Stardate 10.04.06
Today Captain Hillestad was absent and her First-Lieutenant, Ms. Sullivan assumed command of the Starship AP-Lit. I recited a passage from the holy book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and the lives of my fellow crewmates were forever changed by its jaw-dropping eloquence and insurpassable beauty. Following this, the crew was subjected to a torturous and extremely difficult pair of exams, one concerning a wholly incomprehendible piece of poetry, the other, a wholly incomprehendible piece of prose. Once the crew had finished utterly failing these, Ms. Sullivan commenced "quiet reading time," providing an opportunity for crewmembers to catch up on their reading of Cry, the Beloved Country. "Quiet reading time" involved crewmembers dispersing around the room and engaging in just about every human activity imaginable except the quiet reading of Cry, the Beloved Country. Perhaps with the help of divine intervention, we are expected to have read up to chapter 18 by next class. Finally Henson Zach and I discovered the large bouncy rubber ball hidden in the back of the room, ostensibly used either for torturing prisoners or unconventional aerobics. We claimed it for our "reading" place. Much hilarity ensued.

Henson Blanco, signing off
Catch the next episode of Star Trek: Literature, where esoteric novels are the final frontier.