Comments on: How Reviewing Works http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/08/17/how-reviewing-works/ Reading Writing Teaching Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:16:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Steven Augustine http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/08/17/how-reviewing-works/#comment-919 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:01:21 +0100 http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/2008/08/17/how-reviewing-works/#comment-919 "In any case, I’d have been more persuaded by Kirn’s attack on Wood as old-fashioned and donnish if I didn’t suspect..." Well, there you have it: you're doing it, too; the operative word being "suspect". "The avant-garde tool kit, developed way back when to disassemble established attitudes and cut through rusty sentiments, has now become the best means, it seems, for restoring them and propping them up." There's nothing in this quoted sentence of Kirn's to suggest that he's against the *genuinely* new, certainly. Unless you're suggesting that JS Foer is an embodiment of the new. You can't be, can you? “In any case, I’d have been more persuaded by Kirn’s attack on Wood as old-fashioned and donnish if I didn’t suspect…”

Well, there you have it: you’re doing it, too; the operative word being “suspect”.

“The avant-garde tool kit, developed way back when to disassemble established attitudes and cut through rusty sentiments, has now become the best means, it seems, for restoring them and propping them up.”

There’s nothing in this quoted sentence of Kirn’s to suggest that he’s against the *genuinely* new, certainly. Unless you’re suggesting that JS Foer is an embodiment of the new. You can’t be, can you?

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