Re: [PEN-L] Re: value, again

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Levy wrote:

>If it is really true that you "don't know the
>answer to this", then you should consider either going back to school
>(since you live in NYC, you could apply at the New School) or changing
>your occupation (perhaps you might make a decent English Lit instructor).

If having made up your mind about everything is a mark of sophistication,
then I think both knowledge and politics could do with a little more
naivete.

As Wallace Stevens said, "you must become an ignorant man again...." Oh,
there I go with English, I mean American, lit.

Doug