Re: Shallow Intellectual Drivel on this List
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:37:30 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kozusko <mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Monday, July 27, 1998 11:18 AM
Subject: Shallow Intellectual Drivel on this List
>On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, patrick flaherty wrote:
>
>
>> What bothers me is
>> the way you wage these silly intellectual wars over things that really
don't
>> matter much.
>
>The definition and implications of the word "universal," for instance? A
>batch of silly intellectual pedantry with no real implications in the real
>world? Something that good little boys and girls who take their spiritual
>crises with cheeseburgers and Cokes and who read passionately needn't
>bother with?
>
>Why don't the definition and implications of the word "universal" matter?
>
>
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>Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
>
Of course the definition of universal is important to the study of
literature. My point was that one's time is much better spent experienceing
literature as opposed to debating over intellectual abstractions.
Patrick