and a kind of a reply to Will

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:32:55 +0000

    It's very good of Will to worry about me - especially after
    my insulting remarks about his prose style.  I was not being 
    particularly insulting - merely stating a fact that I find him
    difficult to understand.  

    I wonder would it help if I signed on for his course ?

    Perhaps I should then acquire an 'interpretive strategy' 
    enabling me to make something of: ''....How readers 
    negotiate these intentions seems to me to be very secondary 
    in how I make meaning of literature, but now how I write...''

    Perhaps not, though.  You can't really teach an old dinosaur
    new tricks.  As must be all to evident from my old threadbare
    thoughts expressed in my old threadbare words.

    Scottie B.