Re: Shallow Intellectual Drivel on this List
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 02 Aug 1998 10:17:33 +1000
> I look at it as a lively exchange of ideas. I don't always agree with
> things that come up, and so I don't always feel compelled to chime in on
> every topic. Some just don't interest me. Or, more often, I just don't
> have time to comment. (Unfortunately.)
I agree. Like I've already said, let's look on these things as `debates'
rather than `arguments' - a debate is a productive, interesting and
stimulating look at both sides of a story, while an argument is simply two
or more people yelling at each other (: I sure know which I'd rather do on
Bananafish. And I also do think that thankfully flamewars are kept to a
minimum here - but sometimes (as we are all human) we do have to remember
to attack the idea and not the person, as you say. But Bananafish is far
from bitchy - we get far more done here than a lot of other places. In
fact, I just sent an e-mail to the computer writer at the newspaper who's
writing an article about listserves, telling him what a productive and
largely flame free experience I've found it.
> > In any case, I'm wondering, what do you all think about what I am
getting
> > at here? Am I overestimating what I perceive to be a diversity
phenomenon
> > resulting from the universality of Salinger's works, or not?
Interesting! Although I'm loath to raise this argument again, that's a very
telling point. I doubt, for example, you'd have the same diversity of input
in say, the Joyce listserve (although I could be wrong and probably am)
Well, that's the view from a frequent contributor - how about the rest of
you?
Camille
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