Posted by Benjamin Ecthelion Aillec Tomas Seldon on October 01, 1996 at 00:36:56:
Currently i am an English Teacher at Mosman High School. Having tired of 'run of the mill' bourgoise literature, and contemporary would be's if they could be, i have strained to introduce Vance texts into the current junior curriculum- constrained as i am by senior school requirements in the latter years.Unfortunately i have encountered numerous problems: Apparently my targetted age group is too young to appreciate the multitudinous subtleties and inordinate whimsicalities of the texts i have offered. Furthermore my colleagues suggest my attempts at textual expansion anf the study of sophism as nothing more than a poorly disguised excuse to foister 'space adventure tittilage, or river cat rubbish or whatever it is' upon unwary students; and that my devotion "represents nothing
more than the pretense of energies which through my indolence have become perverted and misdirected". Naturally such criticisms are deflating and swinishly stupid. Correspondingly these remarks have been made by women and supported by other members of this irrational sex. Stragely these remarks align with a further observation i have made in my examination of the text in schools: Why is it that females seem unable to grasp and appreciate the recondite and passionate depths of the wholly male Vancian heroes. Is Kirth Gersen a "Nerd"? clearly not and yet such vapidities have i heard passed by women. Is it me? Is it simply that women generally go without the capacity to rejoice in carefree prolixity and persiflage? Do they simply lack the neccessary humour? Is Sophism a strictly male term, apprpriate only to men like a penis? Seemingly so.Were they not more insensible- less given to emotional absurdities. They cannot comprehend the driven male.... they nest.
Finally ...Why did Aillas forgoe Tatzel... Was there ever a greater outrage? Perhaps so that in our fury we would not forget.
The insipid Glyneth.....Bah!