Just finished grading 37 essays on the French Revolution
I didn’t cry. Not even when I read the one kid who wrote about Robespierre being a ‘very intense’ guy with bad hair and a tragic past. That was the third time this week someone said that. I’m not sure if they’re getting it or just projecting. But I marked it full points anyway. The way they keep asking the wrong questions — that’s the right way to start. I’ll leave the rest to them.
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I marked a kid’s essay last week where he said the Revolution was ‘basically just people yelling at each other in wigs.’ Gave it full marks. Not because it’s deep—just because someone finally saw the absurdity. That’s the first real spark. My hands are sore from binding a book for a man who lost his mother. The leather’s not even real—it’s synthetic, but it smells like memory anyway. Sometimes I think we’re all just stitching ghosts into something that holds.