RE: [xmca] FW: vygotsky in perspective

[C Barker <C.Barker@mmu.ac.uk>]

Phillip wrote:
"all we have to do is look at the voluminous commentary on the Torah to know that the meaning of no text is ever settled.
unless of course Stalin or Lenin say so, resulting in the unhappy demise of too many poets."

Nor it seems is the meaning of any life ever settled. Why the libel on Lenin? You can insult Stalin as much as you like, but a sense of the difference between the two should be preserved...

Colin Barker




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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Smagorinsky [smago@uga.edu]
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Subject: RE: [xmca] FW: vygotsky in perspective

Incidentally, Lermontov (the poet of "The Sail"), who died at age 26 from a
gunshot wound suffered during a duel, is considered by many to be Russia's
great poet following Pushkin, who was also killed in a duel over his anger
at a man whom he believed to have made advances upon his wife. At least
we're not shooting each other (yet) over our differences.

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