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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
Wait, didn’t she study English lit or something? How about telling her that Scylla is a Very Important Symbol in your culture and here’s some paper and a pen with which she can oh-so-earnestly take notes? (I’m really starting to dislike this woman, sorry.)
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In a seeming attempt at an apology, she decided to tell me that she was thinking of her "personal context" because her husband is Italian -- when I looked suitably incredulous as her last name (she took her husband's) is as English as it can get, she corrected herself and said his mother is Italian
And, so therefore somehow he (similar to me) would apparently have a "very hard time" with cutting off family unlike her (and her, I dunno, devoid-of-all-culture-from-anywhere-at-all self).
In response, I wanted to say....."We are all Italian today".
And, follow up with relevant references from Dante's Inferno.