I’ve just finished the literature exam. I think I gave pretty solid answers, but I was much more pressed for time in this one than the last and crucially didn’t have time to go back and fix typos. And the browser they use for the exams doesn’t even have spellcheck or any of the other features I take for granted when writing here, say, so I imagine I will be losing some marks for my shit grammar.
Chewing over other things I probably could have done better, I discussed a narrative told to the narrator by a character she interviews and I probably should have slipped the word “intradiegético” in there somewhere. Likewise, when discussing other forms of art used as framing devices in Os Memoráveis (the fact that they are making a film, and the fact that they have a photograph with them which they are using the jog people’s memories) I think I explained the mechanism pretty well but I should have used the word “intermediality”. Just throwing away points, there.
Half way through, a parakeet came and landed on the bird feeder near where I’m sitting. It’s really only for little birds like robins and tits, so if I see a parakeet, a crow or a pigeon out there I usually chuck a pen, or whatever is to hand, at the window to scare them away. This time I only had my wallet so I threw that, realising, just as it left my hand, that the window was open in the direction i was throwing. Luckily, I hit the glass and disaster was averted. Imagine how embarrassing it would be to have to come on here and say “Well, I was failed for leaving the table for 3 minutes while I ran downstairs to retrieve my credit cards from the pavement after lobbing them at a ring-necked parakeet”!
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