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From: "James R. \(Randy\) Fromm" <jrfromm-AT-dreamscape.com>
Subject: RE: PLC: Re: Lack of List Activity??
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:39:22 -0400


I have to admit I thought the same thing . . . but not in terms quite so
eloquent.


James R. (Randy) Fromm
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"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the
contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to
develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of
middle-aged habit and convention."
	Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British author.
	"Vulgarity in Literature" (1930; repr. in Music at Night and Other Essays,
1949).

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	owner-phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
[mailto:owner-phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]  On Behalf Of Reg
Lilly
Sent:	Tuesday, October 24, 2000 8:05 PM
To:	phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject:	Re: PLC: Re: Lack of List Activity??

This reminds me of the boy who, stacking wood on the wood pile, found
himself
astride a nest of ground wasps.  He was stung terribly, and retreated to the
house.  Several days later, when it came time to stack more wood, he went
back to
the woodpile with a long reed, which he angrily thrust down the hole, partly
to
see if the wasps were still there, partly to kill a few if they were and he
were
lucky.  There are several endings to this story, all entirely predictable.

ciao,
reg

TheeahTheeah-AT-aol.com wrote:

> All in the lists,
>
> Actually, what we should pray for is that G. Trail, from his miles-high
> cathedra (apparently the oxygen up there gets pretty thin), has so far
> deigned to mutter cute little nothings about Zen, mixed in with
> quasi-scriptural parodies. Hope, ye huddlers and whimperers, that it
remains
> ever so; that G.T.'s Wotan-like eye falls not on any "paste-heads" (an
> elegant term used not of me, but of some other unfortunate list adherent
in
> recent months) who fail to live up to his standards for rhetoric, logic,
> evidence -- if not taste or diplomacy.
>
> It is always amusing to watch academic blowhards adopt the vocabulary of
> eight-year-olds on the playyard; not so, however, outside the confines of
> their offices and classrooms, where it becomes a rather sorry public
> spectacle. May I suggest that the primary reason for the recent list
> inactivity (blessed silence, if yer asks me) was almost total, universal
> exhaustion at the rhetorical mess that resulted from talk about
interracial
> body odor and other high-academic topics. All the designated paste-heads
on
> the list -- when not dropping off it entirely -- did indeed huddle
together
> and pray for some kind of light, if not sweetness. (The lion and the
> honeycomb, indeed!)
>
> Just thought I'd warn you all in advance. Right now it's the first day of
the
> new semester, the unknown students are giggling with naive anticipation
and
> beginning to discuss their clever ideas. They clutch their new-smelling
books
> and wonder what the Prof will look like, and what exciting new things
he'll
> have to tell them. It even resembles the start of a reasonable discussion
in
> a meeting of equals -- a seminar, perhaps. But before long the Prof will
> thunder into the room, decide who the paste-heads and twits are, and
settle
> down to monologue about his version of God's own truth. You'll know when
it
> happens.
>
> Maybe it's just a bad nightmare I was having over the past couple of
months.
> Just thought I'd share my shudders of prolepsis with you-all, though,
before
> the stinkpots fly fast and thick and nobody much has a chance to say
anything
> reasoned; before the next twenty flustered pronouncements arrive from on
> high, all within ten minutes, day after bloody day.
>
> pk
>
> In a message dated 10/23/2000 9:25:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
gtrail-AT-uh.edu
> writes:
>
> <<  As it was, so it always shall be. We
>  should therefore huddle together and whimper, quietly, and pray for the
>  light.  >>
>
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