Dear Log,
I wish to pay
Harold
Bloom
and
Ummy Eco
to wrestle until someone breaks their hip.
Eco has some redeeming value at least...
hfb on 2002-11-14T02:38:50
Bloom is just a hoosier done good who thinks as long as he's a snob noone will find out he's a fraud. The mere thought of Bloom makes me foam at the mouth...much like Rush Limbaugh.
ink-wasters supreme
brev on 2002-11-14T08:33:22
I can identify with Bloom one tiny smidgen. In detesting the cowardly, self-hating sort of relativism you sometimes find among educated elites. IIRC the introduction to that "Closing of the American Mind" book recounts a story where his students refuse to support the idea of British authorities stopping widow-burning in India.
But Bloom's prescription to fix relativism is to spend our lives in prostration before the Greats. He's wasted *so* much ink on this. Yawn.
Eco is more interesting, but yeah, I haven't actually enjoyed any of his books since The Name of the Rose. His books are just pastiches of digressions now.
Re:ink-wasters supreme
TorgoX on 2002-11-14T11:20:26
Eco's Search for the Perfect Language is great -- altho I get a feeling he didn't really write it at all, but instead that his assistants did all the work and, at most, he edited it.
Allan, meet Harold: Harold, meet Allan
pjm on 2002-11-14T13:35:54
Methinks the two are being conflated here! Harold might be a pompous git, but he's no Allan "Closing of the American Mind" Bloom. Sheesh!
Re:Allan, meet Harold: Harold, meet Allan
chromatic on 2002-11-16T02:20:48
Whew, thanks. I almost felt guilty for enjoying Closing...!
