>not meaning to start an argument. i thought matt apologised for his >post... i apologized for the insulting tone of my post, not the attack on cliff's notes (which are nothing like an annotated edition). i stand by my righteous indignation at the inundation of the little "how to be a better idiot" guides. cliff's notes don't seek to elucidate a text, or prod a student to read when they might stop. cliff's notes try to give a quick summary of plot with a few quick answers to common high school test questions about themes and imagery and allegory. they stifle rather than encourage reading.--matt >(also, i'm well aware that this fully contradicts anything i may have said >recently >about the use of green day and other musicians in english classes. whoever >said opinions were constant? :)) p.s. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Uncle Walt