litcritter bashing and the academic factory

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Wed Oct 27 20:39:42 PDT 1999


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



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