Re: tough times

nate (schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:26:17 -0600

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Goodman <kgoodman who-is-at u.arizona.edu>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Friday, December 11, 1998 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: tough times

>In response to Mike:
>Dickens said: It was Best of Times , It was the worst of Times.

The Period
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct
the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present
period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its
being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree
of comparison only.

Sounds
>like our times. There is of a lot of anti-intellectualism in
all of
>these bizarre events. I call it the pedagogy of the absurd.
>Ken Goodman
>--
>Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor, Language, Reading & Culture
>504 College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
> fax 520 7456895 phone 520 6217868
>
>These are mean times- and in the mean time
>We need to Learn to Live Under Water
>