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