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| Bill Anderson | Feb 13 2009, 11:33 PM Post #16 |
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Indeed, happy birthday!! You need to visit Garrett County again! Come on by!
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| Payback | Feb 14 2009, 02:27 PM Post #17 |
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Belated Happy Birthday, SC. I had to bring down something to copy. It's from a "biography" of Chaucer: Donald R. Howard (1987), p. xiii: "When I began writing, people informed me that I would be going to Europe to find new facts. I knew I would be staying home. Not that there are no new facts to be discovered: while England has been turned upside down for materials, no one to my knowledge has made a systematic search of archives in all the Continental cities Chaucer visited--in Florence, yes, but in Genoa, Milan, and elsewhere, no. . . . But I leave the search to others. A scholar might spend a decade finding two facts, and one of those would likely be wrong: facts about the Middle Ages are in short supply, and their status is often suspect. And facts, like everything else, go out of fashion. . . . [xv] to write a biography one must find a figure in the carpet whether there is a figure there or not. And yet we do not find anything without knowing first what we are looking for and why it is worth finding." Or as Howard's New Critical friend Richard Brodhead said to Ed Bradley, "The facts kept changing." Where did we get these simpletons? From indoctrination at the best schools starting in the late 1940s, of course. |
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