Re: reel hot pashun

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:07:55 +1000

> I simply don't think the stereotypes flying around on this list are cool.
> For one thing, I'm one of many academics learning to learn in cyberspace
> and am aware of many of my colleagues struggles to learn how to use new
> tools and resources effectively.  I've learned how to listen to thinking
> about salinger on this list, for example, and use email discourse to
> improve my understanding and insights.  It's so easy to attack academics
> based on the old stereotypes which may still be true for many, but I
don't
> think it's all that fruitful, even for bananafish! will

I think Will is a perfect example of the ideal academic. He illustrates
perfectly the balance between the theory and the emotion and I think values
each side equally. I'm certainly not anti academic, but neither am I
necessarily anti-amateur reader, either. Like Will I'm attempting to
straddle the two sides of interpretation, trying not to let my feelings get
in the way of a good theory and vice versa (:

Camille 
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