Re: Shallow Intellectual Drivel on this List
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:13:25 +1000
> > 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?
Funny. Ironic, too - to me you've just described Franny Glass, if not the
whole Glass family!
Seriously, if we're here to slang flames at one another I don't see why
we're bothering. In the words of ... well, some very smart person `Why
can't we all just get along'. Let's respect each others' opinions and
methods of enquiry into texts - like I've said, the amateurs shouldn't fear
the rhetoric of the intellectuals, and likewise the intellectuals should
not write off the amateurs as cheese-eating highschool kids. And by the
way, if I hear the word Universal discussed again I will probably scream.
This is where we need a nice freshly cooked batch of JDS Patented Capital
Letters. universal is Universal, that's all there is to it ... you could
even say the desire to define universal is the only universal experience
.. (on this list anyway }: )
Camille
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