Ah, for the clarity of Jacques Derrida!

Or ...

... ain't Lit-Crit. grand?

Paul D.

----- Original Message -----
From: Reinhold Schlieper <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Social Security


> I am a mere lurker most of the time, but I always dislike intensely when
> one gang decides to insist on an epistemological sieve for all the
> rest. I don't think that the human mind per se or human knowledge in
> general is handicapped by serious compartmentalization, is it? Why
> would we want to handicap these phenomena in that manner artificially? I
> appreciated the missive about the self-serving senators very much. I
> even liked the quip about the analogy between sex and understanding.
> <g> After all, I live IN this world, not merely in a grammar world.
> Somehow I'm thinking of Browning's "A Grammarian's Funeral" at the
> thought of being "IN this world" . . . don't know why.
>
> Purely practically speaking, I'd say it probably wastes less time and
> bandwidth to tolerate the occasional off-topic epistle than to sputter
> on about some demarcation of orthodox subject-matter. There is always
> the DELete key.
>
> ==Reinhold
>
> Robert Einarsson wrote:
> >
> > I feel the same.  This listserv should be used for our grammar
> > discussions only.
> >
> > It's bad enough that everyone is forced to see my opinions on
> > grammar, let alone politics.
> >
> > > As much as I appreciate the message on Social Security, I would prefer
> > > that the content of this list be reserved for issues directly related
to
> > > grammar instruction. I don't know about you, but I already get way too
> > > much mail to handle. I really intend no offense to Ruth -- I know she
> > > posted this in the spirit of good citizenship.
> > >
> > > Anybody feel the same?
> > >
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > Johanna Rubba   Assistant Professor, Linguistics
> > > English Department, California Polytechnic State University
> > > One Grand Avenue  . San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
> > > Tel. (805)-756-2184  .  Fax: (805)-756-6374 . Dept. Phone.  756-259
> > > . E-mail: [log in to unmask] .  Home page:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
> > >                                      **
> > > "Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose,
> > > but that's not why people do it normally"  -            Frank
Oppenheimer
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
>