--what I was saying was, the author of the article makes this
semi-clever noir-ish comment: "Denning, for all his
brilliance, writes the kind of flat, lifeless, prose one
expects to hear read in a nearly-empty lecture hall by a
doddering, half-blind, English professor who speaks only in
the frowning monotone of a man who has been divorced for ten
years and has yet to realize his wife is gone." This is an
academic's attempt to match his writing style to his subject
matter. It's a momentary nod to the source material, to show
he can be clever. It is mildly clever, but that's it.
Academics nod and smile to each other at these things.
Sorry to wander off task. My point is, academic standards and
theoretical filters make it difficult to judge their comments
from an
"entertainment"-reader's point of view. Academics aren't
typically interested in entertainment, unless they can find
some way to measure it.
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