litcritter bashing and the academic factory

[kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:29:42 -0500 Carrol Cox 
<cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> In my original, "history" meant the discipline of 
history, the study of history.

A crime against a History Department then?

My apologies for quibbling over words instead of thinking.  
Would that be a federal offense? or do we just chalk it up 
a general list of problems in the world?

A crime against History, human history at that.

And *I'm* being accused of an abuse of language.

Cracks me up.

ken