Re: The World According to Walter

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:
>
> [...] the reader who reads for enjoyment and looks for
> meaning and intent without looking for theories.

> Apart from Professors
> and grad students etc all the readers prior to this list that I have
> discussed literature with fit this definition.

Where do professors and grad students fall in the arena of readers,
relative to all those others? Or where in the spectrum, or where on the
continuum?

And why do you single them out? Entertain for a moment the possibility
that your preconceptions about academia have so deeply colored your
experience of teachers and instructors that all you can see when you
encounter an academic is someone looking for "theories." If nothing
else, consider how aburd it is to suggest--as you do--that
"professional" readers don't read for enjoyment or don't celebrate
meaning and intent every time they crack open a text(e).

While you're doing that, I'll remind myself that my preconceptions about
the "real world" get the best of me perhaps more often than not, and
that consequently, I am dismissive of a life experience I've not had the
opportunity to enjoy or despise, whichever the case would be.

--
Il n'y a pas de hors texte,
Matt
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