LINK: Joseph Epstein (he of the very funny, and good, book Snobbery: The American Version) on Allan Bloom, and self-congratulating critics everywhere. Very bitchy.
Me likey:
"Apart from Shakespeare, Bloom's great culture heroes are Emerson and Freud, who, in combination, yield a gasbag with a dirty mind. 'Why criticism has not addressed itself to the image of masturbation in Whitman,' Bloom writes, 'I scarcely know.' A critic's work, as you can see, is never done."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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