I’ve just been informed that a literature professor of mine, long ago, has passed. It wasn’t recently, but the news was recently passed onto me by someone who had stayed behind, got further degreed, and taught English Lit at my old alma mater.
While reading Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy, I turned in a paper before being asked to write one. But I was that “guy” who spent summer months gobbling up the next semester’s reading list and often handed in a paper on day one. This way I could get ahead of the rest and drink tequila sunrises while they were all cramming for finals.
He read the piece three times. He gave me a Double A Plus. He’s often shown it to other profs saying it’s the most brilliant thing a student ever handed in.
So I thought I’d post it here, for laughs.
It is a pastiche.
A pastiche is a creative work that imitates the style, tone, or characteristics of another artist, genre, or period — usually as a tribute or affectionate imitation rather than a parody.
Because it was written on a typewriter, and there’s something about a paper handed in that was written on a typewriter, just something tactile about it, I’m posting the images of those typewritten pages.
So, here goes.
