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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 21:49:52 EDT Dear Tim: Frank Harvey said THAT?! It sounds rather uncharacteristic -- but then, I don't know him very well. He once audited my fieldwork methods class (last spring, in fact) and was a model faculty auditor, non-intrusive and respectful of what must have been a foreign tongue, to him, just as computer-babble is to me. . . Anyway, I am sort of shocked, not to say sorry that he didn't just politely ask to be removed from your list and keep the rest to himself -- gratuitous insults seem to me out of place in such a context as this, where one is free to escape at any moment (not like a lecture hall, where we teachers have captive audiences. . . ) I haven't followed too well what you have been writing about lately, and tonight time is short -- I have two lectures to deliver tomorrow (or at any rate two classes to conduct one way or another). But I am still checking my mail every couple of days, and printing out your messages with the thought that one lazy Sunday I will try to read them all together as a coherent unit (more or less) and see whether I "get it" or not. I don't know when that lazy Sunday will arrive, what with the garden to put to bed sometime soon, and people to take care of, and the general slowing of my once-hectic pace, not to mention the shortening of my once-humongous work-days. At any rate, I thought I should at least let you know I'm still reading -- and that I approve of creativity, and even, perhaps, of creativism. Maybe that's because I have a son who has been writing novels and stories these last ten or twelve years, living in a garret quite literally. He has finally succumbed to the need for a regular job and a regular life, so is working to get his Ph.D. We both hope that with the academic union card he can start getting paid better for what he has been paid very badly for lo, these many years -- which is teaching freshman composition and creative writing. I wish him well -- especially since I'd love to live long enough to have at least one more grandchild. . . Of course, he'll have to find a wife first! As I said, I'm short of time -- so with nothing particular said,
will sign By the way, the worst thing about creativism is that it sounds
too much like creationism, which is something I'm sure you wouldn't
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