I'm teaching a graduate course at the moment and we just finished reading
OMC. They absolutely loved it--we used it in conjunction with the Johnson
and the Franklin and interestingly, my students consider OMC more of a
seminal text than the others. They agree with the premise that the way
words are laid out on the page is important, too.
I took them into a computer lab on Thursday last week and we look through
the DEA. They thought it was very cool and wanted to see the mss of all the
texts in OMC, so they could relate the actual ms with what's printed in the
book. I think that the DEA has a real potential for being a significant
teaching tool
Dr. Marcy Tanter
Department of English and Languages
Box T-0300
Tarleton State University
Stephenville, TX 76401
phone/voicemail: 254 968-9892
"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's [sic]
most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people
who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another
hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
This piratical warfare, the opprobium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of
the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market
where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for
suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this
execrable commerce."
--Thomas Jefferson, rough draft of The Declaration of Independence, 1776
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