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ink-wasters supreme (Score:1)

by brev (1827) on 2002.11.14 3:33 (#14756)

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.

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- 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...!

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