Monday, April 20, 2009

Maybe too late ...

... J-Schools Play Catchup. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Maybe it's the J-School model that is outmoded. Maybe the academicization of all and sundry is a bad idea. Here is something Gide said:
It is certain that the man who wonders as he takes up his pen: what service can be performed by what I am about to write? is not a born writer, and would do better to give up producing at once. Verse or prose, one's work is born of a sort of imperative one cannot elude. It results (I am now speaking only of the authentic writer) from an artesian gushing-forth, almost unintentional, on which reason, critical spirit, and art operate only as regulators.

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