From brucet@csufresno.edu Thu Mar 9 11:26:21 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA31078 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:26:18 -0800 Received: from shadow.csufresno.edu (relay-1.csufresno.edu [129.8.57.22]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA16715 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:26:17 -0800 Received: from zimmer.csufresno.edu (zimmer.csufresno.edu [129.8.52.100]) by shadow.csufresno.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18194 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:26:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.8.9.183] ([129.8.9.183]) by zimmer.csufresno.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA04075 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:26:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:32:34 +0100 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: brucet@csufresno.edu (Bruce Thornton) Subject: Re: teaching what one dislikes (was: beautiful language) I do somewhat resent the >insinuation that I like "Ulysses" only because somebody told me to >and because I enjoy pulling rank on those who can't make head nor >tail of the book. David Lupher reminds me of the story about the old lady who called the police to complain about a man publicly exposing himself in front of her window. When the cop arrived, he looked out the window and said, "I don't see anyone." The woman answered, "Of course you don't, you're not using the binoculars." Bruce S Thornton 559-278-7037 (voice mail) 559-278-7878 (FAX) .