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∞ To be a beast or not to be, that is the question.

Friday, August 7, 2009

"The word 'butchered' also

possess animal connotations

and exposes the indelible

bestiality within humanity... "

After receiving my much-anticipated essay this morning, I consulted Sweeney Todd about all the pencil markings of EXPLAIN? and WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? which filled the sidelines and had made my 1.5 line spacings seem non-existant. She scrutinized my hopeless stir-fry of words and then eventually stumbled upon the phrase "exposes the indelible bestiality within humanity," of which she praised out loud.

This was followed by a roar of laughter from Roger, Arkash, Edmund and Vibhav's table. Confused, I spun around and looked quizzically at them. What's so funny about human depravity?

WELL APPARENTLY, as I came to discover, the term "bestiality" actually means:

" FCKING AN ANIMAL."

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OH
EM
GEE.

Did I just write that in my essay? *buries head in embarrassment* It seems like 99.999% of the population knew that except for me. But surely it can't be right, since the teacher didn't express a sense of disgust while reading through it..

Intrigued, I continued my journey to discover the underlying truth, with a slight assistance from my brother-from-another-mother http://www.dictionary.com/.

bes-ti-al-i-ty

- noun, plural -ties

1. brutish or beastily character or
behaviour; beastliness.

2. indulgence in beastlike appetites,
instincts, impulses, etc.

3. an instance of bestial character
or behaviour.

4. sexual relations between a person
and an animal; sodomy.

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So in MY context, I think I prefer option 1. But as literature is art, it's always open for intepretations ;)

xx