Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:37:58 -0400
Subject: Re: HAB: lessons in Power, Sharon's latest production


Quoting David Hawkes <dh05-AT-lehigh.edu>:

> Mais oui mon brave, but I think you'll find that there is a REAL world out
> there beyond the patisseries of the rive gauche. <etc.>

Once, after reading some academic-bashing somewhere or other, my partner 
remarked, as I was standing in the kitchen cutting some vegetables, that *they* 
carry on as if academics never stand in the kitchen and cut vegetables.

Perhaps *we* ought to announce, everywhere, at every opportunity, that we do 
indeed stand in the kitchen and cut vegetables--practically on a daily basis! 
And when the police of academic abstraction demand to know what our cutting 
vegetables has to do with whatever matter (or rather, whatever gas) is at hand, 
we ought to reply: "Should not academics stand in the kitchen and cut 
vegetables? Down with the academics who never stand in the kitchen and cut 
vegetables!"

Matthew


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