From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>
Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 07:00:22 -0600
Date: 2001-01-28T07:00:22-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JJUc6.428$Pn.14772@nnrp1.sbc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.21.0101271915410.28283-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
"Brian Rogoff" <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > In article
> > <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101262056580.20133-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
> > Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> > > like being forced to read Shakespeare.
> >
> > It's a shame to see an attitude like this. Anyone not able to
> > appreciate Shakespeare is missing something pretty important
> > in life
>
> I don't think so. You're certainly entitled to choose to appreciate
> whatever you want, but it's a bit silly to make a sweeping statement
> like that. There are lots of things I don't appreciate, like opera,
> and country & western music. No doubt a C&W fan would make the same sort
> of remark about my disdain for his preferred art form as you Shakespeare
> freaks would make. There are more preferences in heaven and earth, Robert,
> than are dreamt of in your philosophy. :-)
>
> > (the technical junk we all spend so much time with
> > is not an adequate substitute :-)
>
> The insinuation that I'm a technical monomaniac is without any basis
> in reality. I read lots of nontechnical literature. The fact that I find
> Shakespeare's work shallow and boring means nothing.
There is some irony here. Firstly, that you did not write precisely what
you meant:
"Personally, I'd much rather spend time studying math than studying Latin;
the latter seems a waste of time, like being forced to read Shakespeare. "
> I do find it
> interesting that the Bard's fans get all worked up about it though. I've
> enjoyed a few Stephen King novels (more than Shakepseare!) but when
> someone says they don't like King I don't care. The Shakespeare worship
> phenomena fascinates me because it has taken on the trappings of religion,
> and when I reveal my distaste for this stuff someone like you or Pat
Rogers
> will come out with a ridiculous generalization on the power of his
> words. It's almost like talking to Scientologists or ESTers.
And secondly, that you've made such an emotional response.
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2001-01-26 16:31 ` Latin and other irrelevant topics Robert Dewar
2001-01-26 20:24 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-27 5:12 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-27 13:58 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-27 16:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-28 0:09 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 0:08 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Robert Dewar
2001-01-28 3:51 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 13:00 ` Pat Rogers [this message]
2001-01-29 1:40 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 4:23 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 5:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:32 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 17:34 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 6:04 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:39 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 18:53 ` David Starner
2001-01-30 6:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-30 15:54 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-30 19:32 ` Martin Dowie
2001-02-02 22:11 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 0:17 ` David Starner
2001-01-29 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-30 1:21 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 23:05 ` kopilovitch
2001-02-02 21:52 ` Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes " Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 1:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-02-05 16:32 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-05 19:36 ` Al Christians
2001-02-07 18:59 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-08 19:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 5:15 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Buz Cory
2001-02-08 7:38 ` Al Christians
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2001-02-08 16:00 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-08 19:47 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-26 21:06 ` Latin " Lao Xiao Hai
2001-02-08 16:02 Latin, Shakespeare, " Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2001-02-10 6:47 ` Robert Dewar
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2001-02-08 17:46 ` sk
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2001-02-11 16:55 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
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