Re: definitions

Scottie,

Well, I guess I don't even qualify then. It's true that there are often a
number of "immature and suggestible minds" in my classrooms, but there is
also no doubt that mine is one of them.

All this scorn for "intellectuals" by people who hang out on listservs
dedicated to literary authors reminds me of the sarcastic comments you hear
about Ren-Fest geeks made by Trekkies. Both might still live in their
parents' basement, but both think they're the cool ones and the other ones
are pathetic.

And in at least one case, I'm not sure if it's just pettiness, the desire to
be considered "crotchety" and thereby somehow quaint and endearing, or just
the grumpiness that comes with being so much closer to the stone than the
forceps, but at this point it's playing like a scratched record.

Now it's off to the classroom for a last day's look at a book or two and a
few exchanges between immature and suggestible minds (over whom, believe me,
I have little or no real influence).

All the best,

--John

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Received on Fri Apr 25 07:22:35 2003