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occasional musings of a southern girl when she has a chance to think and ...

Thursday, December 02, 2004

the chicken or the egg?

We're reading Romeo and Juliet and occasionally watching parts of the Zefferelli film version in my ninth grade lit classes. So I'm explaining the differences between the movie and the play and one of my students raises his hand to ask:

"So which one is right, the movie or the play?"

I stop, manage not to laugh, and respond, "Well, which one do you think came first?"

Horror of horrors, he hesitated.

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