tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-03-02:2170751 elfbiter elfbiter 2014-10-18T21:40:17Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-03-02:2170751:1398 2014-09-30T21:38:16Z 2014-10-18T21:40:17Z public 0 <b><i>Louis D. Rubin, Jr (edit.)</i></b> - An Apple for my Teacher<br /><br />First, I have to admit I don't know a single one of these authors who write about their mentors. It may be that their books are more "literary" variety that rarely crosses the Atlantic - or even their own world of academia to the outside world. Some of them admit as much: "Radical writer in America is stuck with the anomaly that his own only audience is the literate establishment"<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1398.html#cutid1">How to learn to write to the social circle of your teacher</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />"He can solve practical problems for you, problems of craft; but he cannot and should not meddle with the mystery of it."<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=1398" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments