VLVL(6) "conditionally become Frenesi"

[Janice Wolff]

( ~ ) wrote:

> > I'd venture the idea that the scene Doug evokes reveals more about him than it does about P.'s
> > theories of reading.
>
> Geez, Snake. I just don't know how much we can discern about a poster's
> nature from his or her posts. It always gets me into trouble when I start
> psychologizing P-List offerings and think that what is said here reveals
> something about this group of hidden posters. What we think about others is
> so often a mere projection of our own natures. And you, you are one quite
> handsome, young-at-heart, virile, and brilliant man....I can tell. I am a
> bit put off by your socks, though.

We do read ourselves, yes.  I find that my students teach that to me almost everyday of the
semester.  I recall a few years ago, when we brought in job candidates for interviews that most of
us read ourselves:  one colleague thought a particular candidate was elitist; another thought he was
unbalanced; I thought he was quite wonderfully theorized in the classroom...Funny stuff.