/lit/ - Literature

>Freshman biology in High School
>Teacher explains that the more poisonous a mushroom the better it tastes
>I say "I wonder how many scientists it took to figure that out
>Her face when

>Reading Macbeth in Junior English
>Drunken Porter says "Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance: therefore, much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,
and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him."
>I burst out laughing. Everyone else is silent
>Teacher says "I was hoping nobody would get it". She frowns and starts reading again