Re: curricula & cases (Read: I like green ink.)
Meredith Kay (h_weatherfield@hotmail.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:53:10 -0800 (PST)
Haven't thoroughly read this one, but caught "green ink." If I may, let
me speak on behalf of the mute "green ink."
I believe green ink to be -- not a "statement," or a "yuppie" kind of
thing -- but just ink. If by chance I happen to wear sandals and munch
celery while I use this "green ink," then am I a yuppie? Am I a
collegiate scholar? Or am I a twelve year-old girl suffering from a bad
case of acne?
Why must we judge?
-- Meredith Kay
>From: Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: curricula & cases
>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:52:57 -0500
>
>On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 08:04:16AM +0000, Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
>> Or are we to assume
>> that Salinger attracts a larger proportion of the vegetarian,
>> sandal-wearing, Foucault-reading, green-ink brigade?
>
>This is not meant to seem sardonic, but what do you mean by "green-ink
>brigade"? I myself tend to write most drafts in green (with a fountain
>pen, no less -- the tactile experience is important for me), and I'd
not
>heard it used in what sounds like a slightly derogatory way before.
>
>Again, Scottie, I'm not ticked off or cranky or any of that; I'm
curious
>about the reference. "Blue pencil" is something I'd associate with an
>editor; "red pencil" with a teacher; "red/black ink" with financial
>records. But green ink?
>
>Just curious.... Or haven't had enough coffee today, or sleep last
>night.
>
>--tim
>
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