The scandalized look just gets another snort, and this one might actually be amused... which probably isn't fair, given it's not like he's so old he can't remember feeling like boring school assignments were some horrific curse in his life, but they feel so distant and surreal that it's hard, sometimes, to believe that they're really things that happened to him. That there was a time when a tedious English Lit assignment actually mattered in his life.
"Oh come on, English Lit's all about pretension, and Catcher in the Rye isn't even hard. The main themes... the main themes are-" Alienation as self-protection, the pain of growing up, and the 'phoniness' of the adult world. He can't even force the words out. "Really not that hard to figure out. I thought Google was supposedly your friend."
He spins slightly in the chair and looks out the window he just came in rather than at Stiles. "It's not like I didn't study this shit too, you know. You think I'm illiterate or something?"
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Date: 2014-01-11 05:05 pm (UTC)"Oh come on, English Lit's all about pretension, and Catcher in the Rye isn't even hard. The main themes... the main themes are-" Alienation as self-protection, the pain of growing up, and the 'phoniness' of the adult world. He can't even force the words out. "Really not that hard to figure out. I thought Google was supposedly your friend."
He spins slightly in the chair and looks out the window he just came in rather than at Stiles. "It's not like I didn't study this shit too, you know. You think I'm illiterate or something?"