Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Robert Emmet's ninja attacks

Today's rainbow had the full color spectrum, but instead of just going from red to violet, it went from red to violet and then back to red-yellow-green-blue.  It mirrored how I felt about one of today's lectures.

It was fantastic.  It was our history lecture was about the 1798 Rising, Wolfe Tone, and Robert Emmett's attempt a few years later.  The professor described them in terms of movies with reflections on casting throughout (ex: "I'd have Kiera Knightley to play Sarah, Emmet's love interest, but women don't like her.  Who else? Anne Hathaway is mean.").  Plus he described Emmet's plans as involving ninja grappling hooks, rockets, exploding houses, and hinged pikes.  It was hilarious and definitely proving an upward trend in our lecture series.  Now I must stop procrastinating and do my work.

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