Look. This book is so skippable, actually, because this is just your average English Composition class apparently that was all Aristotle and I just neglected to make that connection (I really don't think it was so explicit though so how could I have known, like I didn't realize it was ALL Aristotle). However, I do think that it is amusing in its own way and probably because I am reading it at an odd juncture in my life, I am very taken by the idea that rhetoric and also, what appeals to humans and their emotions has remained pretty much the same for like 3,000 years I mean when he said "a true touch-- people beginning to cry do put their hands over their eyes" sooo true! Which has me thinking a lot and maybe finally understanding this Classical framework of fate in a way, like actually the lives we think we are living in a new and inventive way have been lived over and over and over again. Like the story beats are actually very much set in stone, even if we do have some control of what happens in between. Anyway, I think it would be very funny to write everything the way Aristotle recommends to. I have done. You have heard me. The facts are before you. I ask for your judgement.  

read for school.