>It seems to me that the self-declared proponents of "just literature"
>are every bit as guilty as the politically correct crowd of setting
>up a situation where "if you're not with me, you're against me."
>Whatever happened to the open mind?  To teaching as some kind of
>an adventure where even the teacher might experience some surprise
>and expansion?

Perhaps.  I respect your opinion, and your right to it.  I'm quite
interested in this topic, but I fear it may be somewhat off track to pursue
this much further on the Twain list.  And I don't want this generally very
civil list to descend to the argumentative level of so many lesser
listservs.  So I'll just accept the chastisement at this point, and sign
off on this issue.

Scott Dalrymple