Sunday, October 4, 2009

A Wierd Way To Do Homework


“Hey what are you doing?”Mary said
“No not much you?”Andrea responded to Mary.
“Hey, so check this out I was reading Candide right? And I was in the part were um Pangloss gets syphilis and I don´t get it.”
“Oh, yes! My dearest Pangloss, I am forever in debt with him. He enlightened me on how we have to thank those who have syphilis, because if it were not for them there would be no such thing as chocolate.”
“Wait dude, your optimistic theory, is way creepy. If everything happens for a reason, I am implying that is what you are saying. Then in theory I could sit my life in a couch and wait for life to happen.” Mary said with confidence
“Okay no, that is not what I meant, but instead I was saying that we should be thankful for what we have and see there is a side to… um… Yeah”
“That does not make sense”
“I know I got carried away, it was absurd”
“So you never answered by question, you did not even let me finish it. So what I don´t get is how syphilis was cured at the time it says, “During treatment, Pangloss lost only an eye and an ear” (pg31) how did he get cured?”
Well sweetie you are not getting the book is satire, Voltaire is making fun of the cure is absurd as well as Pangloss theory.”
“well good point, but something I still do not understand is that, it says how James the Anabaptist, off course Anabaptism is considered as heresy in the 17th century and the Amish descend of this religion, since they rejected any conventional Christian believes such as wedding rings and oaths.”
“What is your question?”
“Oh nothing I just did not understand Anabaptism so I though neither did you, so I quoted the meaning and included a picture”

1 comment:

  1. Andrea, great idea, but watch your punctuation.

    Also, check the spelling of this title.

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