The Existential Horror Of Boarding-School Life
Posted 2 March 2010 in Books by Catriona
Most of the horrors of boarding-school life are fairly well understood: horrible food, snoring roommates, abject bullying, indoctrination into a rigid and aggressively snobbish middle-class ideology . . .
Actually, that last one might just apply to Enid Blyton.
But have you considered these other, less well-known risks to boarding-school life?
Impromptu fiddle performances by sickeningly cherubic classmates:
Risk of shipwreck:
Compulsory victory parades:
Assessable antiquing:
And the greatest threat of all:
That’s right: uncontextualised pointing.
Share your thoughts [2]
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Heather wrote at Mar 2, 10:19 pm
Noooooo! Not Uncontextualised pointing!!!! Seriously, it looks as if she’s scolding a puppy for doing something ‘naughty’ on the floor. Maybe her roommates Vajazzled her when she was passed out and now she’s loosing jewels?
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Catriona wrote at Mar 2, 10:28 pm
But without the puppy (though with the floor).
Why, oh why did you have to bring Vajazzling over to the blog? Why?
;)