Alliteration illiterate

As we enter week three of this class I have come to the conclusion that I am an alliteration illiterate.  This is yet another debilitating disease like dyslexia or ADD that affects and damages students academic careers and is severely overlooked.  I don’t announce this with any sort of pride, but, I do so for the need for this disease to get more light shed on it so that students like myself can find help as we traverse through the passages the likes of the Odessey and Beowulf.

Even as a young scholar I wondered why people talked about Jack and Jill as if there was a different meaning attached to the story.  They went up the hill, they went down the hill, tripped, hurt…the end.  Or Ricki Ticki Tumbo…one of my favorites…very rhythmic.

I am just a give it to me straight kind of guy.  Lacking the ability to read between the lines and unable to understand that a dragon may not be a dragon and walls are sometimes not physical.

Now there is help for those of us with this imparity.  I have learned of great things such as Wikapedia…and Sparks notes. While I don’t know if these things are any more real than the tablets with the ten commandments, my Heroes quest is to seek out these strange phenomena and to give understanding to Homer.

Join me or root for me, my goal was an A but I’ll settle for a B.