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[apocalypsos]

If a song makes it extraordinarily difficult to sing the lyrics at any point -- see Blues Traveller's Hook or the entirety of It's The End of the World As We Know It -- I feel a compulsive need to learn them all.

Right now, I'm trying to learn Weird Al's Hardware Store. I may need to develop an extra set of lungs for this.

EDIT: Music isn't my only compulsion when it comes to memorizing stuff. Once, when we were studying Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven in English class, we were supposed to memorize the first stanza for homework, and any extra stanzas for extra credit. I promptly went home and memorized the whole bloody thing. (Which I believe was either twenty-one or twenty-two stanzas long.)

It probably would have been more impressive if I'd been the only one in the grade Hermione enough to try it, though (one other person did, too, in th other English class), but still, I think that's partly why I got the Poe's signature tattoo.

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[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

We didn't do poetry at all until high school, for whatever reason (well, I did, in the extra classes they sent the kids to that would later become the honors kids, but everyone else didn't). We did a lot of reading, analysis and writing-about, but very little recitation. ::shrugs::