Re: the quiet life

From: <Omlor@aol.com>
Date: Sun Mar 02 2003 - 18:26:28 EST

John G. writes, about some of his fellow list-members:

"Seems they are lost in the world of interpretive decuntstructionism."

Does this sentence actually mean anything at all, or is it just a silly
excuse for a childish play on spelling?

Is there any evidence that this is true concerning any specific readings ever
offered here of Salinger's work? Have any of them ever even remotely
resembled anything that could properly be called "deconstruction?"

Is there any evidence that John's assertion is true concerning contemporary
scholarship or literary studies as practiced by most of those on this list or
those elsewhere in academia?

Has there ever been any evidence that John G. would even be able to recognize
such a specific act of reading if it was offered here?

Incidentally, it has longed seemed to me that one reason no one should take
anything John G. says about academia seriously is that he obviously has no
idea what goes on there these days.

And Scottie,

Perhaps it is just a question of time management. Perhaps some find it
simply a better use of their time to go elsewhere. You might think that your
unflinching grumpiness is honest, profound, and perhaps even oddly endearing.
 Others might just see it as simplistic, predictable, and easy. Such is
reading.

And so, as has been noted, I have had little to say.

That, and at the moment, Tiger is playing.

All the best,

--John

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