Covering up appearances with comical sincerity!

It's Online Test Day at Classical Values, and it isn't a pretty picture. Life consists of unfair choices, where right choices are wrong, and wrong choices are right, where appearances are everything -- even though they're never what they seem -- and where coverups rule! (Appearances beget coverups, which beget appearances!)


The first test promised to find my place in the Marvel multiverse!

Here I am, and don't I know my place!

From Ghost of a flea -- who was Dr. Strange. That's OK. I can live with being the Silver Surfer.

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The next test purports to tell me how straight acting I am. What a thing to test for! I scored quite well, but the problem is, I have no respect whatsoever for appearances. If I had any respect for 'em, I wouldn't be any good at 'em! (Truly, I must be psychotic, and it worries me.....)

How Do You Rate?

Via Skiplog (who also offers graphic evidence that life is sometimes a classic double bind!)


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FINAL EXAM: FAIL! FAIL! FAIL!


It's true confession time, folks.

The final test for today -- "the Book Quiz" -- yielded such an embarrassing result that I decided to cheat!

Yes, cheat! This is the second time I've cheated on an online test, and you'd think I'd learn.

But I deserved better than what I got, and my self-esteem will not allow me to reveal my results. I decided to look over Nicholas's shoulder, and copy his. (Besides, his book was better anyway!)






You're The Guns of August!

by Barbara Tuchman


Though you're interested in war, what you really want to know is what causes war. You're out to expose imperialism, militarism, and nationalism for what they really are. Nevertheless, you're always living in the past and have a hard time dealing with what's going on today. You're also far more focused on Europe than anywhere else in the world. A fitting motto for you might be "Guns do kill, but so can diplomats.




Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.


Forgive me Nicholas, for my covering up my depravity with this tawdry and juvenile exercise of civil disobedience!

posted by Eric on 02.20.04 at 08:34 PM





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I was very disappointed in my Marvel Superhero result, something called The Beast. Superheroine was some Psycho-lady, very sexy, muscular in tights. I must confess that I'm near totally unfamiliar with the universe of Marvel comics now, having been into the DC universe instead for such a long time, over a decade, Batman mostly and also Superman. I haven't been reading comic books since I moved up here to Bellevue, WA. There was a very good comic store in Fremont, CA, where I had lived.

They had another quiz on that site, "How Perverted Are You?", and I turned out to be "Sick as Shit Perverted!" ha! ha!

Book: St. Augustine's "Confessions"

Level #4: "Somewhat Straight Acting" ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ha, that book quiz is great!

You're Compassion Fatigue!
by Susan Moeller
You used to care, but now it's just getting too difficult. You cared about the plight of people in lands near and far, but now the media has bombarded you with images of suffering to the point that you just don't have the energy to go on. You've become cold and heartless, as though you'd lived in New York City for a year or so. But you stand as a serious example to all others that they should turn off their TV sets and start caring again.

Sounds about right.

Skip Perry   ·  February 21, 2004 05:32 AM


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