Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked - Plot & Excerpts
I do this because, inexplicable as Nasreen’s actions ultimately seemed, I consider myself under an obligation to do everything in my power to account for them, and because I am aware that, in the interest of describing a complicated situation as quickly as possible, I have left things unsaid and failed to examine certain aspects of the situation as thoroughly as I should.First of all, there is the question of the classroom.I described Nasreen’s reaction to my praise of her writing as “unflustered,” and so it appeared at the time. But of course it could not have been anything of the kind. When you have as much at stake as students do in these expensive, highly competitive programs, you are not going to be “unflustered” by your teacher’s enthusiasm, however confident you may be in your abilities. I know this from my own experience. I studied English literature at university. There were no creative-writing classes on offer, but my tutor was a well-known poet and one day I plucked up the courage to hand him a sheaf of my poems.
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