Michael Hoover wrote:
>
> On 12/21/06, John Adams <jadams01 at sprynet.com> wrote:
> > I'm really finding this insistence on plain text puzzling, coming from
> > proponents of post-modernism.
> <<<<<>>>>>
>
> ummm, this thread was started by carrol cox...
>
> carrol, have i missed something, i recall you saying more than three
> (or was it four) years ago, wait, maybe you were relating something
> that aristotle said at least fifteen years ago, then again, it may
> have been friend bobbie who declared nomo pomo (or was it the death of
> discourse that he was so on about)...
>
> in any event, i will stake my exalted position in the curmudgeon
> tendency that carrol is not a proponent of postmodernism...
>
> keep the x in xmas... mh
Michael is quite correct. Do not confuse resistance to nostalgia and dislike of kneejerk sneers at professors as symptoms of any particular ism. I find interesting things in Critical Inquiry and New Literary History, but they have not replaced Marx, Engels, Lenin, & Mao. :-)
Carrol
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