Three pages to go on this essay!

Aravis immediately began, sitting quite still and using a rather different tone and style from her usual one. For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

The Horse and His Boy

My car is gibbering at me, my yellow smiley face balloon is leering at me (he's now in exile under my bed), and C.S. Lewis is working hard to puncture any shred of English major vanity I have left. What is there left to live for? . . . except chocolate chip cookies, that is.