Cello Scrotum

She was quite intense. Fierce even.
She would look you in the eye and fire direct questions.
She talked about tropes, synecdoche, metonymy, denotation and meta-fiction.
She asked if you could separate emotion from image, or image from emotion. If you write The glass was empty, it's just an image, but isn't there an emotion attached?
She talked about being an active reader. Can you read something without putting your own interpretation on it? Doesn't She lost her child have differing impacts?
She said it was important to take notes in daily life. (Today, I wrote down 'cello scrotum.' I heard it on the radio.)
She was very theoretical. She made my head spin. Other people in the class were nodding or writing things down. They were writing about writing.
Writing about writing can be useful, it can look like you've written something when you actually haven't written anything at all.