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- From: msmorris@watsci.UWaterloo.ca (Mike Morris)
- Subject: Re: SF + PC
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:26:55 GMT
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- Saturday, the 2nd of January, 1993
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- Curtis Yarvin writes:
- "Because it makes really really cool people like Ezra Pound and
- Mortimer Adler and Allan Bloom and Kenneth Rexroth smile, and tap a
- little jig," is not, in my perhaps-jaundiced opinion, the best approach.
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- Well, but coolness is not exactly why I said it might be worth listening
- to these people more than others. I said Pound was a great poet in his own
- right, but it should be clear that Bloom and Adler are not. For starters,
- they are simply better read than most other people. It's exactly the reason I
- weigh some people's opinions here more than others. Those who've read an
- awful lot are simply going to be in a position to know.
-
- Mike Morris
- (msmorris@watsci.uwaterloo.ca)
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