RE: The business of subjects (Administrative Trivia)


Subject: RE: The business of subjects (Administrative Trivia)
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Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 07:00:16 EDT


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From: "owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org" <owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org> on behalf of "Tim O'Connor" <oconnort@nyu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:33 PM
To: "bananafish@roughdraft.org" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: The business of subjects (Administrative Trivia)

Tim wrote:

Speaking for myself, I would rather have an intelligent conversation
like yours -- even if I am not interested in participating and even if
it is not directly concerned with the list topic -- than have a small
room full of pointy-headed Salingeristas (and that's no smear; I guess
I fall into that camp myself) analyzing the number of commas-per-page
in "Seymour: An Introduction." I am tired of seeing only pointy-headed
Salingeriana, and I believe the lack of "on-topic" discussion -- compared
to the rather robust engagement we found when things strayed to other
subjects -- speaks enormously about how much richer a list we have when
people feel that they don't have to pass their words through the gates
of Saint Jerome for a blessing!

>> I so so so wholeheartedly agree with this!!!!
>> I've wondered sometimes, however, if people really cared about digression or that
>>simply yelled 'off topic' to be glib or funny. In other words, should we take the
>>fact that people yell it, so seriously?
>>If digression is frowned upon in a serious way, then I really support Tim
>> in stating that it's not a bad thing, and maybe the list should be more lenient.

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