Philologos wrote:
Sand wrote:
The dissection of a personality to the point of accepting one component and isolation and rejection of others as not inherent or acceptable goes down the road that Descartes stumbled into with the misconception that they are somehow unique units. It is unfortunate.
THIS - from the person who has complained of my Anglic that it is unclear.
I THINK - I have, after all, read and marked up many student papers in my time - I can guess at what this is trying ro say, but I would not want to bet it was what was intended.
It comes down, I think, to the fact that one of my very basic premises is what I know to exist, and one of Sand's very basic premises is that he knows no such thing.
From one who incessantly presents grotesque curios of incomprehensible literary efforts this is almost a complement.
Simply said I pointed out you cannot pick and choose the components of a person's personality and reject what you consider distasteful parts. A human's mental construction is an integrated whole with its physical body and must be considered as such.
Apparently we are on conversational terms again. Somewhat bristly but no doubt a microscopic improvement although we have yet to bypass the third person reference stage.
Whether your dealings with your students are tragedies or comedies I cannot ascertain but it seems possible they partake of both.
01 Jul 2011, 1:37 am
