File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9807, message 375


Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 19:36:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: hijinks-AT-utarlg.uta.edu
Subject: Re:  Where oh where, malgosia?


Funny, I never mentioned the field of rhetoric as an area of study.
(Which raises the question of how you know my area of study...) I
merely pointed out your ignorance of something taught in a generic
freshman composition course. Thanks for tipping your hand about what is
really motivating you. ;-)        --tjr
 
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, malgosia askanas wrote:

> Dear TJR, you must be getting pretty tired.  What, if I read the textbooks
> in your own glorious area of study then I would find Lacan useful?  Or,
> I cannot judge Lacan's usefulness to me unless I've read the textbooks
> in your own glorious area of study?  Sorry.  I am not in the same area of 
> study as you and yes, the world is full of things that I find much more
> useful than either Lacan or Adorno.  In addition, I find Adorno less useless 
> than Lacan, Lukacs more useless than Adorno, and Benjamin very useful.
> Moreover, I love E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gogol, Harry Partch, and Hollis Frampton.
> Also, I can't stand Schumann.  All of this without having read one sentence 
> of any rhetoric textbook.  But I have no doubt that if I read such a textbook
> I would be a completely different person. 
> 
> -m
> 
> 
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