tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post2173746694482087537..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: Clearance itemsD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-30930611063679439182009-06-06T15:40:48.167-04:002009-06-06T15:40:48.167-04:00Very interesting, much to ponder.Very interesting, much to ponder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-90045661548025641962009-06-04T01:31:05.717-04:002009-06-04T01:31:05.717-04:00This: "A received idea can make a man forget ...This: <b>"A received idea can make a man forget his own experience."</b> reminds me of this: <b>"When style is overpowering it takes us over. We think we have said what we have heard."</b><br /><br />Which leads me to this: <b>"Less perhaps than any other mode of inquiry, criticism is aware of its own past. Like the heirs of certain great American fortunes who pick up and move to a place where the paterfamilias has made no mark, critics are likely to be embarrassed by what they have inherited at the same time that they are dependent upon it, eager to strike out on their own while having every intention of announcing themselves by the family name."</b> While clearly influenced by J.V. Cunningham, no one could accuse your ideas of being by his defined.<br /><br />Good stuff.Rebecca V. O'Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920443685663707856noreply@blogger.com