Yep. That was a smart professor. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: saul ostrow <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, June 10, 2012 6:26:46 PM Subject: Re: No Subject Judged by conventions and recognized for ones ability to discard them and still produce something of significance - the academy versus art On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:22 PM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > In college I was much impressed by an English professor who said he'd flunk > Fitzgerald in his writing course but go immediately to the Nobel Committee > to > nominate him for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now that was one of my > best > lessons in art. > wc > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, June 10, 2012 4:25:08 PM > Subject: Re: No Subject > > In a message dated 6/10/12 2:11:49 PM, [email protected] writes: > > > > Fitzgerald himself was not able to function most of the time. > > > > Fitzgerald would not have said he himself was a "first class intellect". > His principle model was Irving Thalberg. He was in awe of Thalberg, and it > seemed clear to me it was the kind of awe many of us tend to feel when > confronted with someone who has an approvable gift to such a high degree we > know, "I > > couldn't do that!" Meantime poor FSF had a very foggy idea in mind when > he said "first class intellect". > > -- Saul Ostrow *Crtical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011
