jake,
    yer impatience is acute enuf...boojwa academia
is at best nipple shit.
still, you got the remedy, simply formulate a q on
a level as high crit as you like.
 
bob
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Charles Ptacek <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:14 PM
Subject: discussions...
 
 
>        As a current undergraduate student very interested in Ezra Pound,
>I joined this list serve with high hopes for mature, academic discussion
>of Ezra Pound's works, most especially his poetry, as it is a formidable
>and challenging (but also invigorating, and, at its best, moving and
>affecting) collection.  At times, I have found this kind of discussion at
>its best.  But more often, I tend to find meaningless squabbles over the
>relative merits of completely unrelated books (i.e., the Seamus Heaney
>discussion) and bitter academic infighting.  If this is the life of
>academia, perhaps I should reconsider my choice of careers...  Is there
>any way the list serve could perhaps sped more time on actual, worthwhile
>discussion and less time on these more trivial matters.
>        Of course, I realize that most of the contributors to this list
>serve probably have quite similar feelings.  To those, my apologies for
>taking up both valuable time and e-mail space.
>--Jake