Okay, I went on to get a copy of Fish's book 'Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature' which Matt recommended. I guess I missed the shop talk like you'd miss talk of home economincs. Btw, the Fish book had a great piece on Plato's Pheadrus.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Glendinning Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 3:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MD] Shop Class as Soulcraft Marsha, May 21st and June 15th were the ealier references on MoQ Discuss The NYT review by Stanley Fish - Fathers, Sons & Motorcycles.. Ian On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Ian Glendinning<[email protected]> wrote: > Nice one Arlo. Marsha, it was mentioned on here. > > I also read and "reviewed" it ... needs tidying up but here are my > thoughts ... latest first. > http://www.psybertron.org/index.php?s=crawford > > Regards > Ian > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:55 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR<[email protected]> wrote: >> Brian: 'Cause I'm stupid...'cause I'm failing shop. See we had this assignment, >> to make this ceramic elephant, and um--and we had eight weeks to do it and >> we're s'posed ta, and it was like a lamp, and when you pull the trunk the light >> was s'posed to go on. My light didn't go on, I got a F on it. Never got a F in >> my life. When I signed up, you know, for the course I mean. I thought I was >> playing it real smart, you know. 'Cause I thought, I'll take shop, it'll be >> such an easy way to maintain my grade point average. >> >> Bender: Why'd you think it'd be easy? >> >> Brian: Have you seen some of the dopes that take shop? >> >> Bender: I take shop. You must be a fuckin' idiot! >> >> Brian: I'm a fuckin' idiot because I can't make a lamp? >> >> Bender: No, you're a genius because you can't make a lamp. >> >> Brian: What do you know about Trigonometry? >> >> Bender: I could care less about Trigonometry. >> >> Brian: Bender, did you know without Trigonometry there'd be no engineering? >> >> Bender: Without lamps, there'd be no light. >> >> (From The Breakfast Club) >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
