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[Wilna Wilkinson]

Dear Sil
I am not going to go into a debate about this. My reaction is not to the
article, but to the reaction to the article. If this was the introduction to
the book, it would have been unforgivable, of course. But it wasn't.  It was
the erroneous unedited writing of a young person -- who needs guidance, not
condemnation. Perhaps it is just me who still believes in  old fashioned
constructive criticism rather than outright shock, horror, you stupid fool.
Especially from pilgrims.


On 14 February 2011 08:02, Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Wilna,
> I think the reaction was more - "Gees girl! Where did you dream up this
> crap?"
> "About a thousand years ago Saint James walked from Paris to Spain".
> Huh??
> "St. James, a popular figure amongst the Catholic and Christian faiths"
> Huh??
> The Route was called the Finisterrae?  WHAAAT?
> If I had read this as an introduction to your book I would have been
> horrified and honestly suspicious of anything else you wrote thereafter!
>
> sIL
>
> On 14 February 2011 08:37, Wilna Wilkinson <twoxscotch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Goodness, fellow pilgrims!
>> What a storm in a teacup!
>> A young student wrote an enthusiastic piece about a pilgrimage about which
>> there is probably more conflicting and more contradictory information than
>> any other historical event in the world.  If this same student wrote this
>> same piece after he or she had walked the actual Camino, I could understand
>> a few question marks. But the somewhat patronising comments and shocked
>> criticism I have seen in this discussion about  this piece -- so much so
>> that the university have felt it necessary to make a formal apology -- is
>> really not worthy of people who have had the Camino experience. Where are
>> the role models of the tolerant and kind and understanding people that come
>> out the other side of the Camino experience? Why not just a gentle - and
>> constructive correction of the facts -- if you 100% sure that the facts that
>> YOU have are actually the correct ones?
>>
>> Think about it
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14 February 2011 06:46, Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I left a comment on the webpage and have since received this apology from
>>> Pierce Arrow:
>>>
>>> The Pierce Arrow would like to apologize for the factual, journalistic,
>>> and
>>> common knowledge errors placed within this article. The article has been
>>> immediately removed online by the editors once realization of the amount
>>> of
>>> poor journalistic work that took place and we apologize for the
>>> inconvenience.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12 February 2011 00:35, Kathy Gower <kathygower at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > more about Doug Challenger's work with his students on the Camino
>>> > http://www.franklinpierce.edu/academics/studyabroad/camino/index.htm
>>> > let this be a note to all of us 'academics' that we should check what
>>> our
>>> > students are saying....
>>> > looking forward to hearing what others have planned for this new Camino
>>> > year...Kathy
>>> >
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>>
>
>
> --
> Sil
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>
>


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