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From: Jon Clay <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, July 17, 2000 09:55
Subject: Re: Lurking [was A Message from Lurkio ] and Stupidity (two subje
cts)
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>>From: "Geraldine Monk" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: "Jon Clay" <[log in to unmask]>
>>CC: "british poets" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: Lurking [was A Message from Lurkio ] and Stupidity (two subje
>>cts)
>>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:04:33 +0100
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>>With all due respect Jon, I wouldn't swop the lot of them for
>>Frank Welsh and Accrington College of Further Education
>>(see earlier posting). It was the sheer incongruity of having
>>Stein lopped at us without warning in the midst of Jane Austen
>>and Howard Spring that was so world shattering. We (or at
>>least I) had to go home alone a redraw the map of an unknown
>>world. It took me years of painstaking exploration. Oh happy days!
>>Geraldine
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>Fair enough, I certainly wouldn't dare to argue, not least since I teach in
>FE myself, though in Foundation Skills (communications) at present, not
>English as such. I would want to teach GCSE and A-levels, though, since
>that's what I was trained for and because I'd get to teach more literature.
>I've often thought that I'd like to be teaching, say, Keats, and throw some
>Denise Riley (or something) into the middle of it, just to break things up
>and see what the students thought.
>Really, though, I was just saying in the first place that I _did_ have the
>kind of intellectual (and aesthetic) excitement at university that Alexis
>was saying is more common in the sciences.
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>Jon
Hello Jon,
I wasn't meaning to sound dismissive of your experience
nor the people/poets you mentioned.
My mind just ran back and bumped into a precious-moment-
block-of-nostalgia and we all know what funny effects that can
have.
And yes, I think if you are in a position to pepper young minds with
the odd 'precious moment' - go for it!
Best wishes,
Geraldine
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