On Creativity and Getting High

14Mar08

The following events took place in a creative writing class:

I made a note to bring in some ashtrays and then I rooted through the wastepaper basket for a few empty cans. Standing beneath the prominently displayed NO SMOKING sign, I distributed the cans and cast my cigarettes upon the table, encouraging my students to go at it. This, to me, was the very essence of teaching, and I thought I’d made a real break-through until the class asthmatic raised his hand, saying that, to the best of his knowledge, Aristophanes had never smoked a cigarette in his life. “Neither did Jane Austin,” he said. “Or the Brontes.” I jotted these names into my notebook alongside the word Troublemaker, and said I’d look into it.

From the book Me talk Pretty One Day

Of course marijuana will make you see things…so that shouldn’t count.

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