By: Gorboduc

Gorboduc — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:22:52 +0000

May a reader from the UK comment on his first visit to this site?
From reading Bloom I couldn’t be certain that he actually was a Christian.
Two other books that seem to live on the same shelf as Bloo are “The Devil knows Latin” by E. Christian Kopff and “Climbing Parnassus” by Tracy Lee Simmons.
A fictional depiction of a university entirely taken over by an anti-human philosophy and technology is C.S.Lewis’s “That Hideous Strength”.
Ientirely agree with the point you make about the simultaneous requirements fo conservative rigour and liberal experimentation.
I studied music at a British university: on my first day I was publicly humiliated, quite in th in the old style, for addressing a staff member formally, instead of as “Dave”, and later, having exhibited a desire to write fairly elaborate but academically strict and correct counterpoint, I was ordered by mytutor to cut my latest piece up with scissors and re-assemble it at random “in order to learn freedom.”. I protested that this would turn the work into nonsense, and was told that values were now transvalued and tonal and generally consonant writing just wasn’t on the curriculum: on my producing the course prospectus, which allowed me to submit a piece in a style of my choice, I was told that that had now been withdrawn, that escapist pastiche was NOT to be handed in, and that if there were any more insolencies of this sort I would be taken off the composition course. Persistent questioning of this ruling brought forth the response that the music department was subject to inspection by people outside the university, and that state funding could be lost if an agenda of hard modernism were not delivered.

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