ATTENTION READERS: I am NOT a Republican. Nor a Democrat. I just can't join. I have a problem....ATTENTION READERS: I am NOT a Republican. Nor a Democrat. I just can't join. I have a problem....ATTENTION READERS: I am NOT a Republican. Nor a Democrat. I just : )
I was thinking... isn't it wonderful to have these kinds of certainties... or is it scary ... and when I was their age did I have them??? So sad, I don't remember.
it is scary. and no, I did not. We had those slogans allover. I was born in Soviet Union, I explained. Made me personally agnostic and uncertain, lol. Of course times were already more favorable, to be agnostic and uncertain, without very grave consequences. Not sure I'd get off so easy couple decades before.
Strange, how every generation(or every third generation) thinks they'll do something with this "either-or" but their results somehow will be better.
And-strange how them big empires are vaguely alike even when being seemingly very different.
Primary is just anything that's not criticism whether its in some canon or not. A friend quit Columbia's MA program in English because someone was disgusted by seeing a book of Edith Wharton's in her knapsack: "Ew! You read primary???!!!"
I'm old enough to remember when it was possible to have a heated discussion with someone and thewn go for a coffee afterwards. Everyone is the poorer for not being able to be open any more. Great post, Richard.
An important announcement from the author:
ATTENTION READERS: I am NOT a Republican. Nor a Democrat. I just can't join. I have a problem....ATTENTION READERS: I am NOT a Republican. Nor a Democrat. I just can't join. I have a problem....ATTENTION READERS: I am NOT a Republican. Nor a Democrat. I just : )
I was thinking... isn't it wonderful to have these kinds of certainties... or is it scary ... and when I was their age did I have them??? So sad, I don't remember.
Well Martine people are often very closed off. We just can't be wrong. And yet often we are (sigh) : )
it is scary. and no, I did not. We had those slogans allover. I was born in Soviet Union, I explained. Made me personally agnostic and uncertain, lol. Of course times were already more favorable, to be agnostic and uncertain, without very grave consequences. Not sure I'd get off so easy couple decades before.
Strange, how every generation(or every third generation) thinks they'll do something with this "either-or" but their results somehow will be better.
And-strange how them big empires are vaguely alike even when being seemingly very different.
If they're grad students they're not likely to read "primary" these days, but literary criticism. :-)
Thanks Lev this is heartening. Reading criticism is great training for the budding writer
Actually, it's the opposite. There's contempt for "primary" in too much of the post-graduate milieu and criticism is privileged over it.
I did not know this. If by primary you mean the canon.
Primary is just anything that's not criticism whether its in some canon or not. A friend quit Columbia's MA program in English because someone was disgusted by seeing a book of Edith Wharton's in her knapsack: "Ew! You read primary???!!!"
I'm old enough to remember when it was possible to have a heated discussion with someone and thewn go for a coffee afterwards. Everyone is the poorer for not being able to be open any more. Great post, Richard.
Love this. Sad yet funny as gen z tend to be.