FW: thoughts/thotz

[DudiousMax at aol.com]

Yo Rob,
               It's really nothing personal, it's not that I don't like you 
or anything like that.  I'm sure your heart's in the right place.  But I find 
these contradictions in your various postures difficult to reconcile.

                It was you, not an impostor using your name, wasn't it, who 
wrote to the eGAD list, about the time (Fri. Jan 21) you were excoriating me 
for pulling critical privilege, that "It always saddens and bemuses me when I 
see this type of complaint about professional academics and literary 
scholars, women and men who have made a conscious choice to devote their 
energy and career paths to interpreting and explicating literature for the 
benefit of others."  I mean, which way do you want it?  Do you want to stand 
for the little guy on the P-list, and rail against critical privilege, and 
then stand with the big guys  (with whom you unashamedly seek to curry favor, 
and maybe a new job) on the eGAD list.  It seems a little like the self 
divided, a little cognitive disonance here. How can you expect me, or anyone 
on the list, to take your rants seriously.  I don't see any difference 
between my work and the purple "research and travail in publishing and 
publicising their readings of Gaddis's work," of O'Donnell, Steven More, Alan 
Westrope and Ron Dulin.  If you were a little more honest with the list and 
with yourself you might have integrity and a moral center.  This two-faced 
stuff is a little much.  IMHO, you damn me and suck up to them because it 
suits your career.  You ought to examine your motives.
                Charles Hollander