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charascarlet · 2 years ago

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So I've just had a memory resurface from, like, 3 years ago. For a literature class, we had to write a 2-page short story about the painting The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli (or something like that).

Now I don't know what possessed me, but apparently I wrote something so good that the teacher read it out to the class (I wasn't even there, I was sick). I don't remember how exactly the story went, but the one thing I'll forever remember is that I described the demon as an anthropomorphic raccoon.

An anthropomorphic raccoon.

I- I don't know, it just looked like one, but has got to be the weirdest group of words i've ever used in a school assignment.

For reference, this is the version of the painting we had to take inspiration from :

#please tell me you see my vision #i was so proud of myself too #like come on that was truly the best piece of literature i wrote in my entire life #what am i supposed to tag this actually #???#writing #i guess #also it sounds even funnier in french (which is how i wrote it originally cause i'm french)#in french it's 'raton-laveur anthropomorphe' which is just.#and btw please share similar stories it's always fun to hear anecdotes about unhinged writing assignments

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