Virginia Tech thoughts
Category: Publishing
As an English major, I have a certain view of English majors that pretty much parallels Garrison Keillor's view: "English majors have all the qualities women look for - intelligence, curiosity, a sense of adventure, and excellent punctuation." In other words, we can be a lot of unappealing things - snotty, snarky, defensive, hair-splitting, pompous, unctuous - but we're about as violent as librarians. In fact, many of us ARE librarians.
So upon finding that the tragedy in Blacksburg was in fact the product of an English major's mind...and that until Monday, his primary way of expressing himself was through his writing....
It kind of knocked the wind out of me. For so long, an unspoken definition of "English major" has been "essentially harmless".
No more.
So upon finding that the tragedy in Blacksburg was in fact the product of an English major's mind...and that until Monday, his primary way of expressing himself was through his writing....
It kind of knocked the wind out of me. For so long, an unspoken definition of "English major" has been "essentially harmless".
No more.
