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cbertsch ([personal profile] cbertsch) wrote2005-03-15 11:28 pm
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Ruled

People sometimes ask me why I don't write in my books. "I don't write in my books anymore," I tell them. This is why:

The underlining in red is from the fall of 1994. It postdates the underlining in black by several years. What you can't see here are the eraser marks that indicate where I erased a line for not being straight enough or a word for being too sloppily formed. Yes, "the distracted person, too, can form habits," particularly when those habits constitute the perfect distraction.
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[identity profile] jakemacalister.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
She did this purposefully, I believe so she could shape our reading. I hated it so much that I would buy the book that articles came from and thought of turning her in to the copyright police. Kudos to you for allowing your students to think and read for themselves. There is a big difference between helping your students learn how to read and doing it for them. She’s the Renaissance specialist and very much holds court like Elizabeth I. She had a picture of Elizabeth in her locker in high school and had a perm so she could look like the queen. Do you find that people waste a lot of time trying to build a life instead of living it. I have a friend getting his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology who did his sitting room to model Freud’s office. WTF. I would be happy with a laptop. Sorry for the tangent.

[identity profile] cbertsch.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Personally I'm trying to make my home office look like a spatial extension of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project!

[identity profile] jakemacalister.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL. My lit. crit. class was so shitty that I had to look up your reference. I chuckled after I did a little reading. I mean shitty, it was a terrible book with no help at all from the prof. We read his poetry (very, very, bad--William Carlos Williams knock-offs) and analyzed that. It is hard to do a New Criticism critique with the poet standing over your shoulder. "Look at how I physically shifted the lines of the poem to give a visual representation of meandering--see the structure . . . what do you mean Northrope Fry?"

He then had the audacity to try to low-pass me on my comps . . . funny none of his poems showed up on those.
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