or at anyrate, nohrnberg kindly pointed out that i shouldn't bait myself so much. it's the same with the bible stuff, he says. religious studies doesn't think english knows anything and hate us encroaching on their territory. and classicists think we don't know any real latin and greek, and would like us to keep out, because we don't know what we're talking about, and historians hate new historicists whom they think don't know real history either. so.not that this bears on my dismal semester of latin. although, judging from the kinds of things two separate classics professors have liked and disliked about my various papers, it is clear that what nohrnberg says is true. he also pointed out that 90% of academia consists of doing the drudging high school like work, and only 10% is the superstar stuff. alas.