on 11/12/08 9:44 AM, Dominic Fox at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Susan Holahan wrote:
>> A counter-suggestion about Bloom and politics: By the mid-'60s, he'd already
>> been through such uproars of politics in his academic situation, that many
>> people, like me (a grad. student at Yale then) took his assertion of what
>> Frederick Pollack calls "apoliticism" as a highly political gesture indeed.
> "A plague o' /both your houses/"?
A plague on all our houses. He had his own troubles that he dealt with by
reading and writing incessantly. Dwelled, it seemed, in a kind of
word-castle. . . . .
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