" I finally read this classic theoretical text for my grad school reading list. I'm glad I read it since now I'm more impressive to elitists, Aristotle wasn't exactly engaging because it was so decontextualized. I was just plopped down in this discussion and had no idea what he was responding to, besides Oedipus and the Odyssey and Iliad because I kind of know those texts, because Aristotle just assumes you're up on all the plays he's quoting. It's cool to see someone theorizing about a literary text a millennium ago, though, especially since all the cool people have read Poetics. "
— Ariel, 2/11/2014