Teacher's Bad Rowling Advice

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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli

Of course Eco is both leftist and a professional literatus. But he happens to be one who enjoys pricking his colleagues' pomposity.

They all do it... the academics I mean. But it's (happily?) only a few who get their prickings published for the general audience...

Originally Posted by William Cloud

On post-Derrida criticism:
I wasn't actually referring to the man himself as the endless dreary PhD dissertations and the publish-or-perish articles compelled from junior faculty.

I see and after re-reading I apologise. No you weren't. And I do wholeheartedly agree with the stuff on "wanna-be-Derridas" or "would-be intellectuals" to whom appearing cool and nice and hip and surfing the wave just a bit before the latest trend is so important... and so annoying to follow... if I had energy enough to annoy myself with them in the first place...

But yes, I remember those people...