Ah, Ken, how kindly you put the case...<hee>
Yup.
Doug
On 15-Apr-07, at 9:11 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> Oh, well, I too remain unconvinced, Barry. And I have never really
>> understood the hold Bloom has on so many (but one does have to choose
>> how much one can fit in, & I never fit much of his work in).
> Fashions change. In 1970, even friends who within five years would go
> on to become Marxist deconstructionists, Gramsci-mavens, etc., were
> all about Jabba-Bloom and his various angsts.
>
> As for Vendler, she admits to ending her poetry writing at
> twenty-six...in favor of a Chemistry thesis. Oh well. Her subsequent
> ascent to become incoronated goddess (some might say Cerberus) of
> Parnassus entirely escapes me. To say Barnum was right about what's
> born every minute seems both accurate if simplistic. The question for
> me is how the hell she managed to convince L'Academie she knows shit
> about what she's talking about.
>
> Ken
>
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> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> "It takes a big man to cry. It takes a really big man to
> laugh at that man."
>
>
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