Re: a few answers

Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 15:19:42 -0800 (PST)

---Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> wrote:
>
> 
> >	The profession of teachers is one of 
> > 	the shameful professions - like that of social workers, of bank 
> > 	robbers or of psychiatrists - attracting, by its nature, the very 
> > 	last people who should be practising it & existing - like the
others 
> > 	- for the benefit of the practitioners rather than their clients. 
> 
> So I should be ashamed to have listened to and enjoyed everyone on
this
> list?
> 
> So I should be ashamed of even *joining* this list rather than simply
> letting the name `Salinger' drift over my martini between epigrams
as I
> take luncheon with my cronies and readjust my monocle?
> 
> So I should be ashamed of actually learning a lot from being on this
list?
> >From both official and unofficial teachers?
> 
> So I should be ashamed of allegedly wasting three years of my life
> listening to teachers who were obviously just in it for the money
and their
> own glory?
> 
> I should also be ashamed of letting a few Posts and Structurals
creep into
> my thoughts and my writings? 
> 
> In a lot of ways, I feel very, very sorry for you. I won't use Jim's
> succinct language, but can I just ask one more time - why *are* you
here if
> you can't stand the whole basis of our discourse here? Are you just a
> computer generated factor which has been programmed to stop the list
> becoming stagnant?
> 
> To everyone else - thanks, and without any guilt, I have learnt a
lot and
> hope I have taught you a bit too. Cause that's what *I'm* here for.
> 
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> @ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
> 
I agree with Camille. I am also learning a lot from this list. It's
not very often that I am able to discuss Salinger's works with others.
I am grateful to all of my English teachers because without them I
would never have the love of Great Literature that I know posess. I
won't even get into his comments on Social workers and psychiatrists.
I suppose that some people are just better to be ignored.
-Liz Friedman
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