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• Eco has some redeeming value at least... (Score:2)

  by hfb (74)

  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 (Score:1)

  by brev (1827)

  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 have
  • Re:ink-wasters supreme (Score:2)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    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 (Score:1)

    by pjm (639)

    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 (Score:1)

      by chromatic (983)

      Whew, thanks. I almost felt guilty for enjoying Closing...!