Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

Every year since I was sixteen Jamaica Kincaid's ubiquitous work "Girl" has been assigned in at least one class, I can practically recite it line by line "wash de white clothes on monday..." and I think it's a good work, I like it, and I like that I sound smart because I've heard it so many times that I've got batters on all the bases for whenever it comes up (I'm not sure that's how baseball works, but I needed some sort of metaphor there...) But is there honestly no other super short piece that we as students can be presented with? Apparently not, because although Jamaica Kincaid successfully characterizes her mother, her culture, and her native Antigua in a piece that takes up a page if that, Annie Dillard in the assignment for tonight saw fit to spend twelve pages on how she reached shrieking lunatic levels of insanity when she witnessed a total eclipse that she drove to go see. And while that may sound like an enthralling description (it sounded like one to me even as I wrote it!) just imagine Nicholas Cage on valium and yet trying to get into character to play Hedda Gabler while listing shades of blue.

Actually, strike that, that sounds hilarious. Anyone know where I could find Nicholas Cage and few valium tablets?

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