Your nine innings trace a liturgy of unmasking—how imposter fear, bourgeois routine, royal literalism, and inherited father-myths distort our public freedom. Yet in stickers, meetings, parables, and Middle Ground congruence, you find democracy’s counter-formation: patient presence, mutual translation, and justice interrupting routine until we relearn how to belong together. - ! - Thanks, Bryce.
William, when I dare to think of your comments as good karma and myself as a good teacher, I associate your insights with what I most wanted to be as a composition instructor—a good reader of student work.
Through trial and error, I discovered what assignments (consistent with the curriculum guidelines I was issued) produced student writing that most delighted me. I gave writers extensive comments, mostly positive, and mostly about the paper’s content so they knew that they had a reader in me first and foremost. I found that it inspired better writing in most students.
You do that for me, and your comment here is a perfect example. I never saw any connection among these nine fragments. (I knew each was too short to amount to something worth emailing, and I wanted to experiment with shorter work, anyway.) You pull these “innings” together here in a way that gives me insight into my writing and inspires me to improve.
Your note is deeply moving. If my comments helped reveal a pattern in your ‘innings,’ it’s only because the pattern was already there. Your through lines work precisely because they stay implicit—they trust the reader to find them.
Your nine innings trace a liturgy of unmasking—how imposter fear, bourgeois routine, royal literalism, and inherited father-myths distort our public freedom. Yet in stickers, meetings, parables, and Middle Ground congruence, you find democracy’s counter-formation: patient presence, mutual translation, and justice interrupting routine until we relearn how to belong together. - ! - Thanks, Bryce.
William, when I dare to think of your comments as good karma and myself as a good teacher, I associate your insights with what I most wanted to be as a composition instructor—a good reader of student work.
Through trial and error, I discovered what assignments (consistent with the curriculum guidelines I was issued) produced student writing that most delighted me. I gave writers extensive comments, mostly positive, and mostly about the paper’s content so they knew that they had a reader in me first and foremost. I found that it inspired better writing in most students.
You do that for me, and your comment here is a perfect example. I never saw any connection among these nine fragments. (I knew each was too short to amount to something worth emailing, and I wanted to experiment with shorter work, anyway.) You pull these “innings” together here in a way that gives me insight into my writing and inspires me to improve.
I’m grateful. Thank you.
Your note is deeply moving. If my comments helped reveal a pattern in your ‘innings,’ it’s only because the pattern was already there. Your through lines work precisely because they stay implicit—they trust the reader to find them.