Youfrog2000: have you had to read billy budd yet?
Trinity9587: nope
Trinity9587: we really....don't....have to...read much up here in Susq.
Youfrog2000:well
Youfrog2000:its probably a good thing
Youfrog2000: but billy budd is SO boring
Trinity9587: hahha
Trinity9587:bad book?
Youfrog2000: it is until you look at it like its completely about homosexuality
Youfrog2000: listen to this sentence "Yes, and sometimes the melancholy would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if Claggart could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban."
Youfrog2000: they never even MENTION women in this book
Youfrog2000: its about this really innocent good guy named billy budd whos very pretty
Youfrog2000: and hes on a ship
Youfrog2000: and this guy claggart secretly doesn't like him (we think he has a man crush)
Trinity9587: man crush
Trinity9587: HAHHAHAHA
Youfrog2000: and so claggart accuses him of mutiny but billy couldnt mutinize if he wanted to
Trinity9587: right
Youfrog2000: and billy stutters so he cant get the words out
Youfrog2000:and throws his arms out in rage, hits claggart in the face
Youfrog2000: and kills him
Trinity9587:: aww
Youfrog2000:so hes tried, and hanged
Youfrog2000:and honestly
Youfrog2000: thats the only thing that happens in the entire 150 page book
Trinity9587:oh my
Trinity9587: that does sound mighty boring
Youfrog2000: it is
Youfrog2000: oh and by the way, Billy budd is by the same guy who wrote moby dick
Trinity9587: hahahah
Youfrog2000: Moby DICK
Trinity9587:lol
Trinity9587:is this a trend?