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At 7:27 pm 21/8/01 +0100, Matthew Francis wrote: >What you say about academics stating the obvious and getting the credit has >a lot of truth in it. Oh really. There I was thinking it was a generalisation offered with little evident concern for proof. Like this: >university seminars these days tend to be about things like supermarkets and >tattooing rather than _Lear_, which is regrettable. But perhaps I'm stating the obvious. How academic of me. Three cheers for Barthes, who also renovated the definition of the word _doxa_ which springs suddenly and horrifically to mind. Malcolm / / / / / / / / / / / / Flat 59 room 2 Albany Park St Andrews KY16 8BP Scotland (00 44) + 1334 427862 (internal university number 7862)