The Harmless Yank Hobby

[Dave Monroe]

Aagin, it's simply The Way We (or, at least, Some of
Us) Read, and is no less obtrusive, and in many ways
more accurate, than many of the other tropes
available.  What I thought y'all WOULD appreciate
there is precisely that "facultative act" thing:
"Following a link is not compulsory....  It does not
abolish linear reading ....  It makes linear reading
more complex, enriches or enhances linear reading
...."  Seems to be that the standard set of tropes
here, allusion, reference, symbolism, allegory, et
al., are more insistent, insisting that they be
recognized, or else.   Most critics simply don't go to
the trouble to explain allusion, reference, symbolism,
allegory, et al., first, is all.  It's ALL jargon,
much if not all of it technological in
origin/etymology ("reflection," anyone? and so forth
...), it's just that some of it is more "naturalized"
than others, is all ...

Any such objections would require objecting to pretty
much the entire literary/critical vocabulary ...

--- Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Ummm... because some scholars in the humanities have
> a cargo-cult compulsion to display their
> techno-with-it-tude?

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