Beatrice Playing Taboo

Last night, in a round of Taboo, Beatrice had to get Camilla to guess the word “bath,” and the clue she gave was, “It’s the resort town in England where everyone goes in Northanger Abbey.” I was impressed. However, five minutes later, she had to get Camilla to guess “sorcery” and this was how she opened her clues…

Beatrice: It’s something forbidden in the Bible.

Camilla: Uh… Killing… Uh…

Beatrice: (aggravated) THINK! THINK, CAMILLA!

Dinner Table Conversations

Camilla: When are we going to finally watch The Man Who Knew Too Much?

Gibbs: Soon. Maybe next week.

Camilla: Who is the man who knows too much?

Gibbs: Jimmy Stewart. There’s also a movie called The Man Who Knew Too Little.

Camilla: And who was that?

Gibbs: Bill Murray. If there was a movie called The Man Who Knew Exactly The Right Amount Given His Place In The World, who would play him?

Camilla: Fred Savage.

What Does It Mean To Wrestle With A Text?

“I have wrestled with great books, but the wrestling didn’t take place while I was reading. Wrestling with a text is rarely a discrete event, but an ambient one. We wrestle with a text during the year which transpires between a first and second read. Our very lives persuade us to view a book differently. We do not know we have been wrestling with a book until we return to it.”

-from What Does It Mean To Wrestle With A Text?, my latest for CiRCE