That professor has been analyzing it for decades you literally just read it yesterday. It’s normal to not get ever single reference, idea, motif on the first read.

Keanu Reeves also made a movie about a time traveling transgender witch. I saw it in a lighthouse in the venetian arsenal, it was pretty good.

I was the only person in my class who actually read all the books on the list and most of them I couldn’t wait to finish so I wouldn’t have to spend more time with them.

I think a big part of it was how the book was treated like a chore that needed to be done and the way the class was set up was just to memorize certain details that you can be tested on. I only started understanding the importance of a lot of those books 10 years later when I had the background and willingness to actually engage with the literature.

Another thing that annoys me is the insistence on reading big books. With they way that curriculums are designed it makes much more sense to have short books.