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.