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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2008-10-22 05:22 am (UTC)I'd like them to come over here and say that to the woman who will never, ever have the health to be in any tenture-relevant position yet keeps publishing critically.
And there I realised why, perhaps, fans shouldn't teach
That's equally true for "fans" in the older sense, not just the sense of "people in fandom." I'm not in fandom (am I? I get confused sometimes about what that means), but when I love a book or other media, I love it hard. I don't think I love it any less hard than fans in fandom. The situation you were in today would have been be equally painful to me (or to any passionate consumer and teacher of that media, whether or not she were in fandom). Or is there a difference I'm not seeing because I'm not (maybe) in fandom?
To me, crit and theory are joy. I see why some people don't agree, but I don't see why it threatens them. Why does it threaten them?