The Lesson Plan
We were in my kitchen, he was marking his own work, his supervisor had returned his first essay with comments that were, in Gabriel’s words, technically complimentary and structurally wrong, which meant he was rewriting it.
“What’s his name?” Gabriel said without looking up.
“Theo,” I said.
“What does he argue about?”
“Everything,” I said. “Today it was whether Orwell’s personal politics compromised the integrity of Animal Farm as a political text.”
Gabriel looked up. “What did you say?”
“I said the personal politics were the text,” I said. “You can’t separate the argument from the man making it.”
He looked at me for a moment.
“Correct,” he said.
“I know,” I said.
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