[@The Nexerus]

[quote=@The Nexerus]
English Literature classes teach you how to be an overly paranoid twat obsessed with non-existent symbolism, and that's it.
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This perfectly describes English Lit.

The worst thing is that it makes me put a bunch of overly obscure symbolism in my writing that nobody will ever get despite it being extremely important to the story. And that makes me sad.