Dear Cathie,
That's good to hear!
I also had the response below from Prof Harvey Sarles (University of
Minnesota), via the inclusional research list.
Warmest
Alan
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On Scholars
Scholars study what other people say. And I want to know what is.
What difference, I ask, who says what, except that they say what is?
Sitting in their rooms and offices studying, they gather a kind of
knowledge which is drawn painstakingly into the tomes of their lives.
And I, occasionally curious, stick my nose into their tomes, but
smell the dankness of living tombs. What, I ask, is this about?
Refining definitions, teasing out nuances, they seem to be the
children their parents would tolerate best, rather than those who see
through the mantle of their authority. They teach great men. Do they
teach great thinking? What there is? Principally these scholars talk
to one another, tell themselves who they are and what they claim they
know. Some write well: a cleverly turned phrase, turn some into has-
beens, some into the framers of the fields in which they practice.
Some borrow notions from other times, other arenas, other places, and
turn a style of power into a center of what's new and what is
selling. Worrying, I am, because I do not know the details of
scholasticism; because I do not worship at the proper shrines, I try
to watch the world; never knowing whether I am sheep or shepherd. If
I were a scholar I would have to deny it...especially to my self.
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From: "Cathie Pearce" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Trouble with Giants
> Dear Alan
>
> thank you again! you write some brilliant stuff and uncannily timely as
> well! thank you, its important and very much appreciated...
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> Cathie
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>>>> "Alan Rayner (BU)" <[log in to unmask]> 08/16/08 8:39 AM >>>
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> Dear All,
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> Hope the attached might tickle.
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> Warmest
>
> Alan
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