Schoolhouse HORROR ESCAPE ROOM
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A ghost is trapped in this old schoolhouse, doomed to wander through it until he learns to cite correctly in MLA. To help him escape, you must first pass all the tests and collect the missing items in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to get trapped yourself...
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In what you're about to read, the trapped ghost has attempted to use MLA formatting to cite his sources while writing various textual analyses. Identify where the error(s) lie in each sentence. Take note as you go of the numbers of each error; you will need these numbers to unlock the first inventory item...
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01, Source #1
A. Later, he explains, “it wasn’t just the industry that changed my relationship with easy mode; it was life” (Gallaga). B. Later, he explains, “it wasn’t just the industry that changed my relationship with easy mode; it was life". C. Later, he explains, “it wasn’t just the industry that changed my relationship with easy mode; it was life,” (Gallaga).
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02, Source #1
A. Gallaga focuses his analysis on The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II: video games that initially caused him to “squeeze the black plastic of [his] PlayStation controller until [his] hands ached” (Gallaga)—until, that is, he decided to change the difficulty to easy. B. Gallaga focuses his analysis on "The Last of Us" and "The Last of Us Part II": video games that initially caused him to “squeeze the black plastic of [his] PlayStation controller until [his] hands ached”—until, that is, he decided to change the difficulty to easy. C. Gallaga focuses his analysis on The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II: video games that initially caused him to “squeeze the black plastic of [his] PlayStation controller until [his] hands ached”—until, that is, he decided to change the difficulty to easy.
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03, Source #2
A. While discussing the announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu film, The A.V. Club suggests that we “look at what’s been sidelined as a result of fast-tracking this project" (White). B. While discussing the announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu film, The A.V. Club suggests that we “look at what’s been sidelined as a result of fast-tracking this project" ("What the Mandalorian & Grogu Movie Reveals"). C. While discussing the announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu film, The A.V. Club suggests that we “look at what’s been sidelined as a result of fast-tracking this project".
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04, Source #2
A. Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, noted in the film’s announcement: “Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen." B. Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, noted in the film’s announcement: “Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen” (White.) C. Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, noted in the film’s announcement: “Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen" (qtd. in White).
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05, Source #3
A. After Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney in 2012, producer Kathleen Kennedy “worked to enhance the company’s collaborative spirit, building a creative community of writers, directors, artists and filmmakers.” (LucasFilm Ltd.) B. After Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney in 2012, producer Kathleen Kennedy “worked to enhance the company’s collaborative spirit, building a creative community of writers, directors, artists and filmmakers” (“Our Story”). C. After Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney in 2012, producer Kathleen Kennedy “worked to enhance the company’s collaborative spirit, building a creative community of writers, directors, artists and filmmakers” (Our Story).
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06, Source #4
A. In Band on the Run is the Best Beatles Solo Album, Matt Mitchell makes the case for the Beatle’s continued relevance and, in particular, the supremacy of their solo album "Band on the Run." B. In “Band on the Run is the Best Beatles Solo Album,” Matt Mitchell makes the case for the Beatle’s continued relevance and, in particular, the supremacy of their solo album Band on the Run. C. In “Band on the Run is the Best Beatles Solo Album,” Matt Mitchell makes the case for the Beatle’s continued relevance and, in particular, the supremacy of their solo album "Band on the Run".
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07, Source #4
A. While arguing for the importance of The Beatles to music history, he points to “their recent "final" song, "Now and Then"—it felt like the entire internet came together to, collectively, talk about a dinky little track” (Mitchell). B. While arguing for the importance of The Beatles to music history, he points to “their recent ‘final’ song, ‘Now and Then’—it felt like the entire internet came together to, collectively, talk about a dinky little track” (Mitchell). C. While arguing for the importance of The Beatles to music history, he points to “their recent ‘final’ song, ‘Now and Then’—it felt like the entire internet came together to, collectively, talk about a dinky little track” (Mitchell).
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Source: Easy Mode is Actually for Adults by Omar Gallaga (Article)
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13 url.
12 Gallaga,
1Easy Mode Is Actually for Adults.
11 Gallaga
7 Omar.
6 Omar,
2"Easy Mode Is Actually for Adults."
14 url
16 Culture,
10 "The Atlantic."
8 "The Atlantic".
3 11 Jan. 2024,
4 1/11/24.
5 January 2024,
15 Culture.
9 The Atlantic,
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WALL-E (Movie Title)
01
WALL-E
"WALL-E"
WALL-E
The Meme That Defined a Decade (Article Title)
02
The Meme That Defined a Decade
The Meme That Defined a Decade
"The Meme That Defined a Decade"
Something Good Can Work (Song Title)
03
Something Good Can Work
Something Good Can Work
"Something Good Can Work"
Fearless (Album Title)
04
Fearless
"Fearless"
Fearless
Threat Level Midnight (TV Episode Title)
05
Threat Level Midnight
Threat Level Midnight
"Threat Level Midnight"
The National (Band Name)
06
The National
The National
"The National"
Super Smash Bros (Video Game Title)
07
Super Smash Bros
Super Smash Bros
"Super Smash Bros"
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I stumbled once upon Fitzgerald in the middle of a sad and desperate simile. He saw me and smiled, a smile so gloriously tragic that I saw him and almost cried even as he looked on at me with his face turned up towards light. All I could notice was his heart pulsing out behind his chest as he spoke in such dazzling speech about an economy he saw as killing the world and about gold that used to line the globe and about sex and drugs and alcohol and a life lived to such degree that there was nothing left by the end, all the time emptied and drained. He paced famously at the front of the class as he lectured to me, exclaiming against this miserably drowned society we now exist in with all the girls like stained wedding gowns and all the men like dollar bills. But he spoke quickly, and I missed half the words he said. They were all sharp-edged, sparkling words, I could tell, but my understanding only really reached around half of what I heard. Desdemona I talked with for some time. Dressed in white with redded creases, splattered on the sides, she seemed so incredibly sound. How wisdom sees, she said, how love lives! But she was so lonely, she said. Endowed to darkened nights and days, a marriage gone in blood and sport. How love ruins us, how love never cries in pity for us. Love as sport, she said. Love is sport. Spent and lost in silly games. Gone for the honest man, left for the vulgar creature to abuse into no end. But she sees so few other females, she said; desperation wound her neck, pulled her closely towards me, would never let me leave until the sun gradually rose and she shook out her dress and looked at me and wished me all the best in life and love. I was quite taken with Faulkner, when I met him a rainy night. He was haunting a quiet English classroom in a small school, one set apart in the woods, his ghost dressed gently. I watched as he dragged his spectral hands through the books that marked one shelf, feeling the lilting imprint of marginalia, unfolding pages and creases, reading the words with the touch of fingers while never moving the stories from their proper place. The world is a proper place, he told me. We live on, you know, he told me. In a spirit of resistance and compassion and love and bravery. He waved his hand in the air, trying to signal to the world. Man will live and speak on, you know, he told me.
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I met one night with the ghost of Banquo. We spent it lamenting the foul cries of power, decrying the horrid laments of greed, talking of blood and roses and witches and poison. He often walked withered and crouched over around the room but with a hazy line of gold hovering above his head, forcing him under the shadow of what could have been, of what almost was. The monologues he went on rambled, owing to fate his faults and fire, bequeathing to my ghost the woes of worlds, gently cursing all that gave him this dripping unstitched cavity across his spleen. The blood from his middle would often fall to the floor, but even this could not entreat his mind away from reason. How spite has killed thee! he’d cry as he talked to himself, not with pity but in horror that he had ever so believed that the accursèd could prevail, in horror that he had ever so humbly followed another off the end of Earth as he once had followed man. And my ghost listened, deftly, as the ghost of Banquo worked around his head the toils and troubles of three witches whose cauldron burned and bubbled in the professèd and deadened midnights the man Banquo used to walk in. And it was not till he had grappled all the world with me that he really looked at my ghost’s face and seemed to notice the other weary soul in the room with him, and he finally forced his head up and exited the room flourishing. Lady MacBeth came the night after but I left her after little time in the corner of a classroom as she walked between mumbles and cries to the world of her fears and needs, cries to the world of her trust in fate, cries to the world of her bruises black and blue that ran down half her grief-fed face.
When I’m dreary enough my ghost leaves me. When I’m just sitting in a room staring at a wall anyway. When the lights have been turned off and my mind turned off and my eyes open but unlooking. My ghost haunts English classrooms. Sitting in the empty chair, at the professor’s desk. Looking over students’ shoulders as they write, reading the words they scrawl. Taking pencils and flicking out the lead, drawing stray marks across the white and chalkboards. I watch as they work. As students write. My ghost stands in the back of the class, humming the tune to stray alternative songs, haunting pages and the space between crudely drawn words and letters and lines. During the day, my ghost haunts English classrooms. But at night, when the rooms are empty, when students and teachers have left, when lights have turned off, when my body remains staring into the darkness of a quiet room: I plan my dinner dates. With the other ghostly literati haunting English classrooms. With all the murdered Shakespeare characters and all the dead distinguished authors. Depending on the day, on the night, on whoever else happens to be haunting English classrooms when my ghost is bored and looking for someone to complain to. Yesterday I wrote with Hemingway in simple terms and lives as we moved between schools and bookshelves. I saw the hole in the back of his head while he sat with his feet on the desk in front of me and I saw it again when he slipped through the closed door of a class and then again while we talked of words I saw it when he opened his mouth in the space between teeth and breath and tongue. His ghost was biting in almost all remarks but I could forgive this along with the hole in his head as I never forgot whom I was speaking to, my ghost never forgot whom it was speaking to, and I knew I had no place or time to judge when my ghost still had a body to come back to, a body to breathe into. I knew I had no place or time to judge when I still had time for farewells to arms and legs and life or when I still had a sun that also rises or when I still had fingers and hands to write with, which is all either of us really ever need anyway and I told him this until we ran out of simple words to talk of.
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Schoolhouse HORROR ESCAPE ROOM
MLA Citations
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Introduction
A ghost is trapped in this old schoolhouse, doomed to wander through it until he learns to cite correctly in MLA. To help him escape, you must first pass all the tests and collect the missing items in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to get trapped yourself...
Hint
Explore the schoolhouse
Inventory
Part 1
In what you're about to read, the trapped ghost has attempted to use MLA formatting to cite his sources while writing various textual analyses. Identify where the error(s) lie in each sentence. Take note as you go of the numbers of each error; you will need these numbers to unlock the first inventory item...
Inventory
Note: When identifying where the error lies, consider where you might add something, rather than remove/change something in the sentence (when possible).
Continue
Part 1
01, Source #1
Review the source
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Part 1
02, Source #1
Review the source
Continue
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Part 1
03, Source #1
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Part 1
04, Source #2
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05, Source #2
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06, Source #3
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07, Source #4
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08, Source #4
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Enter the error numbers to continue
Enter the password
The key opened a door! Continue exploring the schoolhouse...
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You've identified what's wrong... now, you'll need to correct the errors. For each sentence, select the correct version. Keep track of your answers; they will provide a key that you will need to receive the next inventory item.
Inventory
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01, Source #1
A. Later, he explains, “it wasn’t just the industry that changed my relationship with easy mode; it was life” (Gallaga). B. Later, he explains, “it wasn’t just the industry that changed my relationship with easy mode; it was life". C. Later, he explains, “it wasn’t just the industry that changed my relationship with easy mode; it was life,” (Gallaga).
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02, Source #1
A. Gallaga focuses his analysis on The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II: video games that initially caused him to “squeeze the black plastic of [his] PlayStation controller until [his] hands ached” (Gallaga)—until, that is, he decided to change the difficulty to easy. B. Gallaga focuses his analysis on "The Last of Us" and "The Last of Us Part II": video games that initially caused him to “squeeze the black plastic of [his] PlayStation controller until [his] hands ached”—until, that is, he decided to change the difficulty to easy. C. Gallaga focuses his analysis on The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II: video games that initially caused him to “squeeze the black plastic of [his] PlayStation controller until [his] hands ached”—until, that is, he decided to change the difficulty to easy.
Review the source
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03, Source #2
A. While discussing the announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu film, The A.V. Club suggests that we “look at what’s been sidelined as a result of fast-tracking this project" (White). B. While discussing the announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu film, The A.V. Club suggests that we “look at what’s been sidelined as a result of fast-tracking this project" ("What the Mandalorian & Grogu Movie Reveals"). C. While discussing the announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu film, The A.V. Club suggests that we “look at what’s been sidelined as a result of fast-tracking this project".
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04, Source #2
A. Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, noted in the film’s announcement: “Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen." B. Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, noted in the film’s announcement: “Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen” (White.) C. Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, noted in the film’s announcement: “Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen" (qtd. in White).
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05, Source #3
A. After Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney in 2012, producer Kathleen Kennedy “worked to enhance the company’s collaborative spirit, building a creative community of writers, directors, artists and filmmakers.” (LucasFilm Ltd.) B. After Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney in 2012, producer Kathleen Kennedy “worked to enhance the company’s collaborative spirit, building a creative community of writers, directors, artists and filmmakers” (“Our Story”). C. After Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney in 2012, producer Kathleen Kennedy “worked to enhance the company’s collaborative spirit, building a creative community of writers, directors, artists and filmmakers” (Our Story).
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06, Source #4
A. In Band on the Run is the Best Beatles Solo Album, Matt Mitchell makes the case for the Beatle’s continued relevance and, in particular, the supremacy of their solo album "Band on the Run." B. In “Band on the Run is the Best Beatles Solo Album,” Matt Mitchell makes the case for the Beatle’s continued relevance and, in particular, the supremacy of their solo album Band on the Run. C. In “Band on the Run is the Best Beatles Solo Album,” Matt Mitchell makes the case for the Beatle’s continued relevance and, in particular, the supremacy of their solo album "Band on the Run".
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07, Source #4
A. While arguing for the importance of The Beatles to music history, he points to “their recent "final" song, "Now and Then"—it felt like the entire internet came together to, collectively, talk about a dinky little track” (Mitchell). B. While arguing for the importance of The Beatles to music history, he points to “their recent ‘final’ song, ‘Now and Then’—it felt like the entire internet came together to, collectively, talk about a dinky little track” (Mitchell). C. While arguing for the importance of The Beatles to music history, he points to “their recent ‘final’ song, ‘Now and Then’—it felt like the entire internet came together to, collectively, talk about a dinky little track” (Mitchell).
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You've acquired the music notes that make up a secret message
Remember this code and play the notes on the piano in the correct order, in accordance with your answers from the previous questions
Continue
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01
...Keep playing
02
...Keep playing
02
...nice job
03
...Getting closer
04
...Sounding good!
05
...so close...
06
Last one!
07
Try again...
You found a new item for your inventory
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Continue exploring the schoolhouse
Inventory
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Now, the ghost needs to format his sources within his Works Cited. Order each element correctly on the pages that follow. The order of the numbers associated with each element will provide the code you need to access the next question.
(Note that while you would normally include the full url within your Works Cited page, just the text "url" will be utilized for this exercise.)
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Works Cited
01
Source: Easy Mode is Actually for Adults by Omar Gallaga (Article)
Review the source
13 url.
12 Gallaga,
1Easy Mode Is Actually for Adults.
11 Gallaga
7 Omar.
6 Omar,
2"Easy Mode Is Actually for Adults."
14 url
16 Culture,
10 "The Atlantic."
8 "The Atlantic".
3 11 Jan. 2024,
4 1/11/24.
5 January 2024,
15 Culture.
9 The Atlantic,
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Enter the code to continue
Enter the code
Enter the code to continue
Enter the code
Enter the code to continue
Enter the code
Use the magnifying glass to find the code and then insert it into the typewriter.
MLA
Enter the passcode to continue
You're almost free! Select the correct punctuation for each source title to collect the last inventory item and escape!
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WALL-E (Movie Title)
01
WALL-E
"WALL-E"
WALL-E
The Meme That Defined a Decade (Article Title)
02
The Meme That Defined a Decade
The Meme That Defined a Decade
"The Meme That Defined a Decade"
Something Good Can Work (Song Title)
03
Something Good Can Work
Something Good Can Work
"Something Good Can Work"
Fearless (Album Title)
04
Fearless
"Fearless"
Fearless
Threat Level Midnight (TV Episode Title)
05
Threat Level Midnight
Threat Level Midnight
"Threat Level Midnight"
The National (Band Name)
06
The National
The National
"The National"
Super Smash Bros (Video Game Title)
07
Super Smash Bros
Super Smash Bros
"Super Smash Bros"
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I stumbled once upon Fitzgerald in the middle of a sad and desperate simile. He saw me and smiled, a smile so gloriously tragic that I saw him and almost cried even as he looked on at me with his face turned up towards light. All I could notice was his heart pulsing out behind his chest as he spoke in such dazzling speech about an economy he saw as killing the world and about gold that used to line the globe and about sex and drugs and alcohol and a life lived to such degree that there was nothing left by the end, all the time emptied and drained. He paced famously at the front of the class as he lectured to me, exclaiming against this miserably drowned society we now exist in with all the girls like stained wedding gowns and all the men like dollar bills. But he spoke quickly, and I missed half the words he said. They were all sharp-edged, sparkling words, I could tell, but my understanding only really reached around half of what I heard. Desdemona I talked with for some time. Dressed in white with redded creases, splattered on the sides, she seemed so incredibly sound. How wisdom sees, she said, how love lives! But she was so lonely, she said. Endowed to darkened nights and days, a marriage gone in blood and sport. How love ruins us, how love never cries in pity for us. Love as sport, she said. Love is sport. Spent and lost in silly games. Gone for the honest man, left for the vulgar creature to abuse into no end. But she sees so few other females, she said; desperation wound her neck, pulled her closely towards me, would never let me leave until the sun gradually rose and she shook out her dress and looked at me and wished me all the best in life and love. I was quite taken with Faulkner, when I met him a rainy night. He was haunting a quiet English classroom in a small school, one set apart in the woods, his ghost dressed gently. I watched as he dragged his spectral hands through the books that marked one shelf, feeling the lilting imprint of marginalia, unfolding pages and creases, reading the words with the touch of fingers while never moving the stories from their proper place. The world is a proper place, he told me. We live on, you know, he told me. In a spirit of resistance and compassion and love and bravery. He waved his hand in the air, trying to signal to the world. Man will live and speak on, you know, he told me.
A+
I met one night with the ghost of Banquo. We spent it lamenting the foul cries of power, decrying the horrid laments of greed, talking of blood and roses and witches and poison. He often walked withered and crouched over around the room but with a hazy line of gold hovering above his head, forcing him under the shadow of what could have been, of what almost was. The monologues he went on rambled, owing to fate his faults and fire, bequeathing to my ghost the woes of worlds, gently cursing all that gave him this dripping unstitched cavity across his spleen. The blood from his middle would often fall to the floor, but even this could not entreat his mind away from reason. How spite has killed thee! he’d cry as he talked to himself, not with pity but in horror that he had ever so believed that the accursèd could prevail, in horror that he had ever so humbly followed another off the end of Earth as he once had followed man. And my ghost listened, deftly, as the ghost of Banquo worked around his head the toils and troubles of three witches whose cauldron burned and bubbled in the professèd and deadened midnights the man Banquo used to walk in. And it was not till he had grappled all the world with me that he really looked at my ghost’s face and seemed to notice the other weary soul in the room with him, and he finally forced his head up and exited the room flourishing. Lady MacBeth came the night after but I left her after little time in the corner of a classroom as she walked between mumbles and cries to the world of her fears and needs, cries to the world of her trust in fate, cries to the world of her bruises black and blue that ran down half her grief-fed face.
When I’m dreary enough my ghost leaves me. When I’m just sitting in a room staring at a wall anyway. When the lights have been turned off and my mind turned off and my eyes open but unlooking. My ghost haunts English classrooms. Sitting in the empty chair, at the professor’s desk. Looking over students’ shoulders as they write, reading the words they scrawl. Taking pencils and flicking out the lead, drawing stray marks across the white and chalkboards. I watch as they work. As students write. My ghost stands in the back of the class, humming the tune to stray alternative songs, haunting pages and the space between crudely drawn words and letters and lines. During the day, my ghost haunts English classrooms. But at night, when the rooms are empty, when students and teachers have left, when lights have turned off, when my body remains staring into the darkness of a quiet room: I plan my dinner dates. With the other ghostly literati haunting English classrooms. With all the murdered Shakespeare characters and all the dead distinguished authors. Depending on the day, on the night, on whoever else happens to be haunting English classrooms when my ghost is bored and looking for someone to complain to. Yesterday I wrote with Hemingway in simple terms and lives as we moved between schools and bookshelves. I saw the hole in the back of his head while he sat with his feet on the desk in front of me and I saw it again when he slipped through the closed door of a class and then again while we talked of words I saw it when he opened his mouth in the space between teeth and breath and tongue. His ghost was biting in almost all remarks but I could forgive this along with the hole in his head as I never forgot whom I was speaking to, my ghost never forgot whom it was speaking to, and I knew I had no place or time to judge when my ghost still had a body to come back to, a body to breathe into. I knew I had no place or time to judge when I still had time for farewells to arms and legs and life or when I still had a sun that also rises or when I still had fingers and hands to write with, which is all either of us really ever need anyway and I told him this until we ran out of simple words to talk of.
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