Read Between the Lines

One of my profs has a very heavy oriental accent. Not that that is bad per se, b/c I like accents, but it makes things a little more difficult as u can imagine.

What is bad, is that he says, "uhm" and "ah" for long periods of time. Maybe three seconds, but he does it about every seven words. In a 1.5h lecture that would add up to about 20 solid minutes of "uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh".

If that didn't dry the paint, then his lengthy explainations would:

He went on about how we had to come to class, and about how we had to read our book. With this came a story. Many years ago, when he first became a prof, he had never taught before, because he was new and had never taught university students before. So he went to another wiser prof, and asked him what he should teach his students in the lectures. The wise prof said 'don't teach them strait from the book'. 'Fair enough', thought he new prof, 'b/c why would the students need a prof if they had the book, and he taught only from the book?' 'But' says the wise prof, 'don't teach nothing from the book, otherwise, why would the students need the book. They wouldn't spend the money on the book unless they needed it'. 'True again', thought the new prof. 'So, I know now what not to teach, but what do I teach?' The wise teacher said 'teach them what is between the lines'. So it turns out that now that this new prof has effectively gained many years in experience with teaching, he can now teach us what's between the lines...in our very books, between the lines....but don't be fooled it's not really in the book, you can't read it in the book, b/c what he teaches isn't strait from the book, it'snot in the book at all. But you have to read the book, b/c it's in there. Still though, you have to come to class, because it's not written...it's inbetween the lines.

:. Today's other, and probably more important lesson: Some times you have to read books with both types of heaviness.