Slashdot is running a story about an engineer's view of literary criticism. I'm right there with you, Chip.

Dealing with deconstructionists can be quite difficult, particularly if you have an engineer's mindset (lets break this down into manageable parts and understand the whole thing...). I'd find myself in a class presumably with the purpose of more deeply understanding literature, but soon things descended into an "everything is right and everything is wrong" acid trip capped of by a final exam.

Quite disorienting.