Re: Harry Potter and discrimination: Can you believe this???

[Margaret Davis <margd@FLASH.NET>]

Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome George?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "George N. Schmidt" <Csubstance@AOL.COM>
To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Harry Potter and discrimination: Can you believe this???


> In a message dated 1/27/02 10:25:18 AM, patter@VOYAGER.NET writes:
>
> << And then there is Peter Pan.  >>
>
> And "MacBeth" ("...fillet of a finny snake, round the cauldron boil and
> bake... eye of newt and to of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog..." --
> sorry, but it's from memory)
>
> And "Othello" (old black guy; young whitechick; etc.)
>
> And "Romeo and Juliet" (they should have tried abstinence)
>
> And ...
>
> Oh, forget it.
>
> I was once publicly defamed for teaching "pornography" to high school
seniors
> (John DelVecchio's Vietnam novel "The 13th Valley") even thought every one
> had written permission. So I got permission (since we were doing a war
unit)
> to teach "A Farewell to Arms" (no dirty words and after all it's old and a
> "classic") while advising my students which chapters of "The 13th Valley"
not
> to have read each night. ("Yesterday, in Chapter 11 which you were not to
> have read," etc.).
>
> In the first chapter of Hemingway, of course, the soldiers are making fun
of
> the priest because the priest masturbates, but since it's veiled (like
> Hemingway's "and then the earth moved" instead of "she screamed in
> pleasure..." when the two have an orgasm) in jokes about how many fingers
the
> priest's "wife" has...
>
> And then, what do you do when your best student turns in a really good
piece
> of short fiction with all of the scenes lovingly detailed at great length.
>
> Maybe we should just let them all get their versions of reality from
> Cosmopolitan, Soldier of Fortune, and Elle.
>
> Oh, forget it again. All this is doing is giving me flashbacks to my
teaching
> days.
>
> George Schmidt
>
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