What does he mean by this question?
Oh…what does ‘underlie’ and ‘overtone’ mean?
Hmmff.
Five minutes passed already?
What does he want exactly?
This is so confusing.
This is a trap test.
Why is everyone writing so excitedly?
What are they writing?
What do they know that I don’t?
I studied too!
Ok. Back to Q.1, what does he want me to say?
What does he expect?
I don’t remember what Said said about knowledge and power and hegemony.
Can I make it up?
Skip that question. Don’t waste time.
Hey, did my fall make me dumb? Like damage my brain?!
Blank.
Hmmm… The Sheik, I can do that.
Underlie? Assumptions? What?
Everyone is so into this exam. WHAT are they writing?
Maybe it’s just the smart American kids.
No, Arabs too.
Shit.
Ok, focus. The Sheik…Diana, Ahmed, World War I, projections, anti-feminist…
How do I start this?
Introduction.
Quick! Time!!!
I am not going to look at the time.
“Both the novel and the movie did more to portray contemporary transatlantic anxieties than…”
Blank.
What did I want to say?
What was my point?
None of what I wrote makes sense.
Think. Please. Think.
Jed is writing like a frog on steroids.
They’re nerds, this is a class of nerds.
Did I look like that when I was smarter?
I hate the smarter me. So nerdy.
Why am I not writing?
“…to depict an accurate image of Arabs at the time.”
Progress.
Q.3
Bernard Lewis. Ok, I know Lewis.
“What went wrong?” — relates to Arabs and non-Arabs.
What does that mean?
I am going to write whatever comes to my mind.
Arab victim mentality, unintrusive West, bla bla bla
Hmm. How do I finish this?
Did I really answer the question?
Arabs and non-Arabs? Readers? Politicians? What?
Idiot professor. WHAT does he want?
Why does he have to be so vague?
Why am I suffering to answer a question?
This has never happened before.
Blank.
How do I finish this?
Blank.
I can’t think of anything more to write.
Blank.
Maybe if I stretch my legs a little.
Blank.
He asked for two pages per question. Think!
Blank.
I’ll throw in a little philosophical spice and finish it.
Whatever.
It sucks to be dumb.

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