Chapter 34
They finished Metamorphosis on a Tuesday. This was not, strictly speaking, supposed to happen until Thursday — he had scheduled two more sessions for the close reading of the final section and the broader thematic discussion that usually closed out a text, the accumulated conversation that tied the individual threads into something a student could carry forward. He had done this with every novel for eleven years and it generally held. Second period on Tuesday ran ahead of schedule in the specific way that only happened when a class was genuinely inside a text — when the discussion didn't require management or prompting but simply moved, one contribution pulling the next with the internal logic of people who were actually thinking rather than performing the activity of thought. It had hap
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