Re: reel hot pashun

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:48:40 +1000

> 
> 	Good try, Jim, good try.
> 
> 	The thing about academics is not the number of books they've 
> 	read. It's the nature of their experience outside of these same 
> 	books.  

So are you saying that after an academic has become a professional reader,
he or she must go out and become an amateur reader again? This viewpoint is
actually subconsciously endorsing the idea that anyone is qualified to
offer a valid interpretation of a work.

Camille 
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