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[jawnbc]

Uriel. You’re most like the ArchAngel of
Transformation. You like teaching, and
bringing the joy of learning new stuff to
others. You have limited patience for stupid
people despite having an amazing amount of
patience otherwise.


Which ArchAngel are you most like?
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[jawnbc]

Yeah a pal from grad skool and I were talking about that a few months ago--remember when Foucault used to make us cry?

Gore Vidal (who I loathe) once had a young pup complain at one of his lectures that reading his (non-fiction) required keeping a thesaurus and dictionary close at hand--and challenged whether Vidal's work was of any relevance,if such minstrations were required.

"That," ole Gore replied, "is called reading."

Then again, it's all about audience isn't it? I often feel I speak numerous languages, particularly dialects of English.

"That," ole Gore replied, "is called reading."

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

When I started grad school, we were asked about our first papers and which theorist would form the primary readings. My reply was I didn't want to read anymore theory. I had read most of their reading list by that point. I had stopped reading Roland Barthes, "Mythologies," just before I started grad school because I just couldn't take it anymore. I told my academic advisor I was going to read fiction for a change. I read Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Fanon, and Wole Soyinka, but I was told I needed to frame my readings within a critical context, which I did. Every paper I wrote in grad school came back saying I had exceeded the expectations. That made me feel very good and confidence to embark upon more writing since finishing school. Every paper I wrote was twice the length of what was required (although length doesn't make it better in and of itself) and, I did my best to make sense of the complex subjects of my papers.

Two of those papers are on my art website. They are titled: "Transcendence and Transformation," and "Outside the Institutional Frame." Writings.

I think one of the main reasons students in general write so poorly is because they don't read. I've had students turn in papers with "instant msg/IRC" shorthand more than a couple times, even though I've warned them a college paper is not the appropriate place for it. And dictionaries? Puhleeeeze....