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Old 02-13-2013, 06:36 PM   #4574 (permalink)
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I'm writing my dissertation on magical realism so I am studying One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Tin Drum and Midnight's Children. I've been trying to get through Midnight's Children for about two weeks now and I am struggling, really not enjoying it in the slightest.
Dissertation must mean something quite different in Scotland than it does in the US. Here, doctoral students spend years writing a dissertation in order to earn their PhD degree (Doctor of Philosophy).
Speaking of Scotland, I've gotten back to this tome:



You Scots fucking rule.
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