Dear All:
I would like to join what seems to be the "teaching-pole" in this
conversation. As a medieval art historian, I find the Med-Rel list often most
valuable when its members undertake some synthetic thinking-together. Med-Rel
itself is an eminently synthetic disciplinary category, to which each of us
brings finite and particular knowledge. Though I realize that not every
gadder-about should be welcome, still I hope that the list continues to err,
if it does at all, on the side of inclusion, to give the benefit of the doubt
to general questions, if only so that we as members can continue to grow into
the breadth of our material.
I'd also like to join in thanking George Ferzoco, for his constant exercise of
tact and courtesy, and for putting this question to the list.
Nell Gifford Martin
http://www.cyberpsalter.org
Carol A. Cole wrote:
> Count me as another appreciator of Bill East's (and others') patient and
> informative responses to what may sometimes seem inappropriately basic
> questions. I've thoroughly enjoyed the "Renihan series." So long as list
> members are willing to provide such help, why not? Regardless of whether
> the original questioner appreciates the responses (and maybe most of them
> do, who knows?), others surely will.
>
> Carol
>
> At 06:00 PM 5/30/1998 +0100, you wrote:
> >Am I over-reacting? Should we continue to answer all queries with the
> >courtesy typical of the vast majority of our membership (fast approaching
> >600 in number)? Should such queries be sent to the list or only to the
> >person who posted them? What do you think?
> >
> >With all good wishes,
> >George Ferzoco
> >temporarily at [log in to unmask]
> >permanently at [log in to unmask]
> >
> >PS, particulary to list members (often lurkers) who are not professional
> >academics or university students of the Middle Ages: my worries are most
> >definitely NOT over you, who have been members of the list for quite a
> >while, and whose interest in our discussions is genuine and therefore
> >welcomed; my own concern is with ensuring that discussions serve
> >*ourselves*, i.e. those who show they wish to belong with our textual
> >community (to borrow a term from a one-time tutor of mine, Brian Stock)
> >
> >
>
> Augustine, to Truth: Your best servant is the one who does not attend
> so much to hearing what he himself wants as to
> willing what he has heard from you.
> Confessions, Book X
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