The Teenager Was Asked To Write A Short Scene Or Draw A Short Comic Using A Comedic Trope From A List

The teenager was asked to write a short scene or draw a short comic using a comedic trope from a list on a handout in their HS American Lit class. They chose to do the comic …

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“Crooked Warden, men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can’t, let it be quick and painless.”

-A prayer from one Locke Lamora, in Red Seas Under Red Skies (by Scott Lynch)

“Everyone — irreligious people included — relies on irreducible answers every day. All religion really does is to be honest about this, by giving the reliance a specific name: faith.”

— Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry (via quotespile)

“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, “Preface”, The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon