Hunh, say I.

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So I was whining at dormouse_in_tea last night about how I dun wanna write an essay on Darwin (not for lack of interest or material so much as pure dun-wanna). I've already turned in two essays (I have options for three, and the prof takes the highest two grades), and the one I'd got back was 95%.

She sensibly inquired if I'd had any sense of Foreboding and Doom. I replied that aside from a great deal of muttering, no. (Seriously, you can look back in the tag and see how very much I dislike the Enlightenment)

This morning I got back the Enlightenment essay. My prof was talking about how he kept getting interrupted while he was working on grading 'em, and that he put more comments on papers that seemed to need it more and that some of the really good essays got very little in the way of comments.

The Enlightenment Essay Question: "Was natural science really affected by the Enlightenment in an fundamental way, or did the Enlightenment depend on science while science itself pursued an unaltered course, fixed by the Scientific Revolution?"

My reaction (in and around muttering about the textbook and the time period): This Idea Is Absurd, Let Me Show You How.

My professor's reaction (there are no other notes on this essay): "100% First-rate essay. Good use of sources; clearly argued and organized. Very well written."

I think I'm going to skip writing the third essay. *solemn*

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