Uromania

[David Morris]

Mr. M.

Let me represent the Lollipop Guild in thanking you fer yer contributions.  The
Prometeus/Dionysus polarity was especially appreciated in these parts.  But as
you have surmised, "we" are a tough lot.  Fellowship is hard to come by in
these waters....

DM

--- Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu> wrote:
> In the meantime, I've been handing out info-mation, maybe even a few bona
> fide
> Clues, but no one'll ever exploit 'em in quite the way I would, were I ever
> to
> have the chance, and, in the meantime, things do come back, so (and are
> Certain
> Someones seriously concerned others here might rip off their precious
> insights?
> Don't even bother to roll up yr windows ...) ....   A critical potlatch? Me,
> I
> think of it as giving gifts in that Levinasian sense.  But there are
> differences
> between "difficult" and "abrasive" and "adolescent" and "insulting" and so
> forth.
> Even in the worst moments of academic "debate" that I've witnessed (or maybe
> even
> have been involved in), much behavior here would not be tolerated.  I've seen
> people flee such online discussions because they're afraid it might get back
> 'round to th' Department ...
> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Dave Monroe wrote:
> >
> > > ... are there academics proper (and/or improper, even?  Far more likely
> ...)
> > > "here," at least in any ongoing, active capacity?  Hard to tell.  I can't
> > > imagine anyone, tenured, seeking tenure, or one day hoping to be seeking
> > > tenure, much less interested in responsible scholarship or whatever,
> > > engaging in the not-all-too-elegant nastiness by which we seem to pass
> much
> > > of the time here.
> >
> > You mean the selection committee might stoop to combing through the
> > archives to predict who may be particularly abrasive in faculty meetings
> > and such. However aren't the most dazzling prospects generally assumed to
> > be somewhat difficult in the 'personality' department? I think the more
> > likely hesitancy would be of publicizing your ideas for fear someone else
> > might proceed to exploit them before you got around to doing so.
> >
> >                         P.
> 


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