Subject: Re: we unhappy few
From: Will Hochman (hochmanw1@southernct.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 12:48:22 EDT
On occasion, I've required students to subscribe to our list. Before
the Internet, I used to require freshman compostion students to read
Catcher (as a re-reading excercise for shifting percentages of
students) because I was teaching in a lit-based comp program...that
was several decades ago...and now my department is talking of a
lit-connected comp sequence...batter up Catcher in the Rye?...maybe
as early as Spring semester...and if so, I'll bring classes...
I just gave our subscribe info to John Gilgun, that fellow whose
email I forwarded regarding Margaret Salinger's DC...
but does our population really matter? I read poetry to 200 people
with the same fervor I read to an audience of under 20 people in two
consecutive nights this weekend and I didn't care...I just wanted to
put something into something I had written and was glad I wasn't just
reading to myself as I do daily...in other words, I like the company
in this bowl, numbers or not!
will
PS: Hem fans...I just got a first ed of Farwell to Arms (minus dj and
in fair condition)...but the real find was a first ed of Johnny Got
His Gun...no dj but signed...in the same batch was a F&Z (9th ed) no
dj but that was all the Salinger I could find in book stores near
woodstock this weekend.
-- Will HochmanAssociate Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024
http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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