[lit-ideas] Re: A word from a founder...
- From: Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:27:53 -0500
Ursula doesn't have time to add too much just now, but happens to know that
Erin still has the electric chair that elicited much discussion years ago....
> On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:50 PM, "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I believe your memory serves you well, Robert. Denis was a professor of
> Russian
> literature, if memory serves me, and David was, like A. Sharon, both loved and
> hated, not always by the same people or by the same people at the same time. I
> also remember George Trail for his wonderful sense of humor. And Howard
> Hastings, who I hope is full prof somewhere by now. And then there was the
> fellow who lived in a Westphalia VW van who had a solid grasp of Kant's moral
> theory. I forget his name. The internationally renowned Kant scholar, Roger
> Sullivan, would chime in occasionally. Remember the fellow who would post only
> under the influence of a bottle of Chianti? He had a penchant for fixing
> people's "little red wagon." I also recall we had a lot more women on board in
> those days. I don't know what scared most of them away. Mike, Omar, Ursula,
> Richard, Beatrix, Carol, and Erin may have more to add to this walk down
> memory
> lane.
>
> Cheers, Walter
>
>
> Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Some will remember the ur-list of what we now call lit-ideas: Phil-Lit
>> (Philosophy and Literature). It was founded by (I think this is right) D.
>> G. (David) Myers, and the late Denis Dutton, sometime before the turn of
>> the century. It died in 2003.
>>
>> While PL existed, David taught English, at Texas A&M. He later left Texas
>> A&M, and went to Ohio State University; now, on the verge of his tenure
>> decision there (about which he didn't seem very sanguine), he's left Ohio
>> State. I ran across this essay by him on <insidehighered.com>.
> http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/01/14/english-professor-scans-landscape-upon-forced-retirement-essay
>>
>>
>> Robert Paul
>
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