Subject: Beaver Coats Cloaking Section Men on the Web
From: Will Hochman (hochman@southernct.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 01:53:40 GMT
TLM imagines Cecilia in a beaver coat and Franny wears one too...I
picked F&Z up as my company on the train ride when I delivered a
paper in pure section man style this weekend at the National Council
of Teachers of English Conference in Baltimore. There's something
about reading that story and being an English professor that really
sings to me...enough so after I delivered "Tutoring/Teaching: How
Thin the Post-Process Membrane" I boogied out of the conference over
to Babe Ruth's house (now a museum) and bought a tin shaped exactly
like Yankee Stadium and painted in perfect detail. When you open it,
it plays "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." If a section man like me
loves Salinger and baseball, there's hope...in fact I think the 21st
Century section man isn't an academic at all. Lane's focus on and
greed for literary recognition reminds me more of the current
book/web hustlers who lack scholarly values but hope to "tap the
market" and make some bucks. In other words, today's section men
aren't even doing the literary work, they're just tuned into fame and
greed. Although my paper was boring and unnecessary in terms of world
piece or ending disease, I did accomplish a fair amount of ideas and
placed them neatly in a practice-theory paradigm that may be useful
for other writing teachers. I don't think my appearance at the
conference or my absence is, in Holden's terms, a very big deal, but
what I'm trying to say is that yesterday's section man is today's
scholar, and today's scholar is almost angelic because we're rare
birds and because we've been overtaken by shallow webheads. Don't get
me wrong, I love the web, but how some people manipulate others with
it, or get real phony with their web pages seems to me to be pure
section man stuff, will
will
-- Will HochmanAssistant Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024
http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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