Lost Corners: I'm not so sure about the cayenne pepper

These tweets are too wonderful to miss an opportunity to save them for posterity. Ashar was rolling when I read them to him last night. Merve Emre is an author and associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Emre adds in an additional comment that she had "been reading a lot of Grimm's Fairytales & I made the mistake of teaching them the witches' incantation from Macbeth a couple of weeks ago." 

And I loved this reply, too: