>There is more than enough information about The Sopranos in the air for
>anyone to make general statements as John has. If someone wrote a
>counterargument making a great deal of use of specifics from the series,
>John would not be in a good position to respond to the whole argument,
>but he still could (accepting the detailed description) argue with the
>conclusions that defense drew from them.
>
>Your proposition here would simply make 90% of conversation and writing
>impossible.
>
>I don't particularly agree with John, but it is really stupid to dismiss
>off hand in this way his grounds for making the statement.
You can be so preposterous. There's a lot of stuff in the air about Milton - should someone write an essay on Paradise Lost without having read it? I've heard some stuff about that guy Pound, too - fascist, anti-Semite, fan of Jefferson. I can see an essay brewing on that too. The poems themselves? Who needs 'em!?!?!?
Did you teach this way? Or is a TV series not the same as canonical poetry? Do I detect a sneer at mass entertainment?
Doug