The Shuffle (Formerly Da Bears)

>Scottie and John -- anyone who makes a large generalization about an
>entire group of people -- especially one as inflammatory as John's --
>deserves the title "bigot."

Not unless you catch us in one of those musty beer halls, sharing a tattered
copy of Boas' Greatest Hits. Otherwise I prefer 'balanced'.

>
>Here, let me quote it again:
>
><<People who fuel the literary criticism industry: Good-for-nothing,
>God-forsaken, supercilious academicians; -- John>>
>
>I want you to read it over and over again, John, until what you said
>penetrates your consciousness just a little bit.

Yes, Yes, it has. But it has. My eyelids are now a bit heavier, Jimbo, and,
yes, now I agree my resistance is my persistance. The fact that I am at rock
bottom is a way for me to bounce back up.
By George you've got it. Subtle, yet incisive.

>
>Please don't play the victim here John. It's bad enough being a bigot,
>but I can chalk that up to a blindness you can't quite help. You don't
>have to be a hypocrite as well.
>
>Scottie -- I'm not sure what gives you pause about the figure "over 4000
>degree granting institutions." I lifted that from a US Department of Ed
>publication. I can dig up the link if you like.

There could be 400000 and I still would not be sure what you are proving
here. Take a stand Jim, stop riding the waves of popularism. Those are damn
lies.

  If you disagree that
>all of them "fuel the literary criticsm industry," I would say they all
>do if the instructors, at any time, require their students to read
>literary criticism, or if the institution has literary journals on its
>library shelves.
>
>Perhaps John meant something else by "fuel the literary criticism
>industry," -- perhaps he intended to say, "write criticism."
>

I can speak for myself Jimbo, thank you. I meant what I said. Unlike the
bulk of your posts, where one is usually lost in smatterings of topsy-turvy
clap-trap, I like to make a point. Not hedge. Or make a statement and then
duck and cover.

Aristotle's Poetic's in High School.
Jim, it is time you realized those hordes of lemmings you may see diving out
of ivory towers when the grant money dries up are not exalted.
I am saying this for your own good. Your ideas are inchoate, there is still
hope. Now read this blunt (yet incisive) message.

Next month try The Confessions.

You will thank me.

Yours,

John Gedsudski
Philistia Community College
Adjunct Professor of Sneer
507 Boorish Drive
NY,NY

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