@Nymphomachy So revisitng the subject of high school lit, did you or @arthur_affect ever read Of Mice and Men in high school? I'm thinking about how that's the Steinbeck novel taught in high school over the pro-socialist Grapes of Wrath.
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Replying to @IKacprzak @arthur_affect
I found Steinbeck really, horribly boring Honestly of all the books I ever had to read in school I think Of Mice and Men was one of the worst experiences next to Where The Red Fern Grows I think it was the relentless maleness of it
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @IKacprzak
I've talked a lot about reading up on the discovery of the structure of DNA when I was in a play about Rosalind Franklin The 1962 Nobel Prize, where Watson and Crick got the Nobel for Medicine for the double helix model, was a fun cast of characters
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That was the same year that Linus Pauling got the Peace Prize for his antinuclear activism, and Steinbeck got the Literature Prize Watson's memoir describes an awkward moment where all four of them found themselves awkwardly hanging out at the hotel before the ceremony
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Pauling had been this looming shadow over the whole DNA thing This legendary American titan in the field whom everyone thought was destined to find the secret eventually if the Europeans didn't step up their game
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Watson and Crick spent the 40s trying every dirty trick in the book to make sure they came out ahead Watson buddying up to Franklin's partner Maurice Wilkins to spy on them, Crick trying to become the mentor of Pauling's son when he came to the UK as an undergrad to spy on him
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Now, many years later, they were world famous and finally hanging out with their former idol/rival, who was on his downhill slide from losing interest in science and becoming a fruitcake Already beginning to shift to his new field of interest, which is how vitamin C cures cancer
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And also there was this old weird hobo John Steinbeck sitting there deliberately underdressed for the occasion and very obviously having no idea what any of them were talking about
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Watson reported it as a deeply surreal scene worthy of adapting into a stage play in and of itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IKacprzak
This almost sounds like it has Poe Party energy
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @IKacprzak
It's funny because Steinbeck's acceptance speech is actually him saying "I don't feel like I belong among all these smart people, but that's okay because real literature isn't about being smart, it's about ACTUALLY WORKING A REAL JOB IN REAL LIFE"
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