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23. I also do not read magazines like

Tue May 1, 2018, 11:19 AM

May 2018

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those mentioned. I saw it as reference to her eyeliner, but the Maybelline allusion went right by me. My first impression was it was simply a joke I didn't get. I teach lit and - particularly with modernist literature which is often very allusive - my students miss things or misread details all of the time. I think I might even use the joke as an illustration when we talk about allusion. I wasn't aware of the lazy eye issue which adds another layer to the joke where it could be construed in a very different way.

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