Today we wrapped up Oedipus in my freshman class and were just shooting the shit in the last few minutes packing up – a couple of the students were talking about if you should eradicate the past or keep it in mind, in their own lives. One said to the other that she wasn’t sure if she should wear jewelry from her last boyfriend now that she had a new one. They asked me what I thought, and I said ‘depends on the karma’, how bad was the last boyfriend? She said, matter-of-factly “Well, he killed my daughter.”

Then definitely dump the jewelry, I said.

"Compared to What," Roberta Flack

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