[Milton-L] New to list - Epic Simile question/Paradise Lost

[Noam Flinker]

There  is no excuse for this sort of level of communication on on  
this list!
Noam Flinker
On Sep 28, 2008, at 1:31 PM, jonnyangel wrote:

> To the member of the peanut gallery that stated that my definition of
> enormous and enormity never appeared in a dictionary, please feel  
> free to
> stick these in your pipe and smoke number three.
>
> http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/50075736? 
> keytype=ref&ijkey=LzuQs1ZeNjv
> JY
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> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enormity
>
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> On 9/28/08 4:13 PM, "gilliaca at jmu.edu" <gilliaca at jmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> .>   "Margie" is Professor Thickstun, and regardless of
>>>   your age, your tone is adolescent, arrogant, and
>>>   disrespectful. I think you owe her and the other
>>>   members of this list who have "condescended" to try
>>>   to help you an apology for wasting their time, and a
>>>   thank you for giving you a number of shortcuts to
>>>   the research a 36-year old student should be capable
>>>   of doing himself.
>>
>> Thank you for writing this.
>>
>> I'm wondering how many others who have followed this thread  
>> assumed that the
>> research paper question, and especially the subsequent comments,  
>> came from a
>> college student who had too often been praised for his 'wit.' I  
>> had figured
>> him for a sophomore.
>>
>> C
>> Cynthia A. Gilliatt
>> English Department, JMU, ret.
>> JMU Safe Zones supporter
>> "You have made God in your own image when God hates the same  
>> people you hate."
>> Fr. John Weston
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Prof. Noam Flinker
Visiting Scholar
Dept. of English UC at Berkeley
flinker at berkeley.edu




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