Re: cogito air go some

J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 13:40:08 -0500 (EST) 

Yeah, I pity you for being there :)  That WAS a section man.... :)

Now I have a story for you.  I was taking a course in Arthurian
Literature, and one assignment we had was to rewrite the ending of
Tristam and Isolde.  One guy, George, wrote this beautiful, touching
ending that had the King give Isolde leave to marry Tristam, and they
lived happily ever after. It was well written, in the style of the
original, and left everyone speechless and half the women in the class in
tears.  

The prof said, "That was good, but..." and proceeded to analyze the damn
thing.  TOTALLY broke the mood.  But you know what?  His analysis was
correct.  The story did go on too long, starting precisely from the point
the instructor pointed out.  He allowed us a few moments of glow then
proceeded to teach us how to understand and think critically.  

My overall opinion was that the instructor was doing his job and I'm
grateful to him for that.  

Jim

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:05:59 +1100 Camille Scaysbrook
<verona_beach@geocities.com> writes:
>J J R wrote:
>> Yes, you don't need to read criticism to understand (to a degree) 
>and
>> appreciate literature or art or theater or Whatever....  Yes, you 
>can
>> even have an opinion about it.  
>> 
>> But maybe the instructor had a different idea of the purpose of the
>> course and it's material than you, eh?
>
>Well, yeah (: If I had have known how theory based the course had been 
>I
>wouldn't have done it. Funnily enough the tutorials were very much 
>like a
>listserver in their structure, but I found it impossible to ever voice 
>my
>opinion - I'm verbose on paper/pixel but usually the quietest one in 
>the
>tutorial. It just seemed to me it was full of Section Men. There was 
>this
>one guy who (and I think I've cited him before) when one girl said 
>about
>seeing the Mona Lisa `I couldn't believe my eyes' actually responded 
>`So.
>That's very interesting. You literally could not believe what you were
>seeing. That's very odd.' And it's like, God! It's a @#$% turn of 
>phrase
>!!!
>
>That to me is your classic Section Man. People who make learning
>unbearable.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>

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