From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 22:08:52 BST
Matt:
> Platt said:
> Thanks for bringing Falck's book to the forefront. I hadn't known about
> it, but any book recommended by Camille Paglia has got to be worth
> reading.
>
> Matt:
> I'm sorry, I'm just beside myself. My entire world is falling apart.
> Platt's now endorsing Paglia. I wouldn't have guessed it for the world.
>
> Camille Paglia, who loves her teacher, Harold Bloom, who loves his
> buddy, Richard Rorty.
Suggest you take a another look at Harold Bloom, defender of the
Western canon and staunch fighter against your hero's deconstructionism
and multi-culturalism. That he loves his adversaries doesn't mean he
agrees with them. After all, I love you. :-)
> Please tell us, Platt, that this has all been the subtlest of jokes.
> Because I would've gotten them had you not been so dead-pan.
Sorry Matt. No joke. Read the following from Harold Bloom, and weep:
"I remember saying to Paul (de Man) that I did not care whether one
taught what he and and Jacques (Derrida) were teaching--which was the
absolute death of meaning, the permanent wandering about of language--
or whether one had a linguistic theory that taught and absolute
plenitude of meaning, as with Kabbalists such as my great mentor
Gershom Scholem and my friend Moshe Idel. All that I cared about was
the Absolute, as it were. Because in the end, the two turned into one
another."
Did you happen to catch the 3-hour interview with Paglia on C-Span a
couple of weeks ago? Simply amazing.
Platt
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