An argument

Involved in a heated argument on Beckett's Waiting for Godot today...

It was pretty messy...

But, I guess not many of us came from literature 'background' (now I am being discriminative hahahaha) and thus some of us were quite shocked to see such 'rally' on a very subjective matter...

I think what L was trying to point out was that M was being slightly discriminative in presenting the ideas of human conditioning - suffering. L sort of crossed the limit when she eventually started to attack M's personal opinion on Beckett's pessimism (or at least that's how M viewed the play)...it became messy when M didn't want to give up and started to defend himself.

I'm not saying that it's wrong for M to defend himself, by all means, defend your claim when you have a concrete basis, but it is not fair to simply accuse people of not reading the play and asking 'silly' questions and questioning 'silly' things.

I think L could have put forward her ideas in a more subtle manner...what she did is not wrong, she questioned M because she viewed the play in a more optimistic approach, but as we know 'noise' in communication happens all the time and thus leading to miscommunication and misunderstanding.

It is normal to have arguments in literature classes...I had many when I was an undergrad but we didn't bring it outside the class and buat muka ketat (picked up that 'description' from NAO) to each other. Oh people, grow up please!

If maturity is what you are required to have to sit in a Master class...you ought to realize that being patient is a 'virtue' of maturity.

I am tired... and I'm still clueless about my presentation...

Goonight people...goonight ladies...goonight gentlemen...