tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post112172682049742904..comments2023-10-31T07:32:11.739-04:00Comments on Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1121754678117285012005-07-19T02:31:00.000-04:002005-07-19T02:31:00.000-04:00My Mac refuses to stream the audio, somehow... : (...My Mac refuses to stream the audio, somehow... : (<BR/><BR/>That U of C magisterial impulse is what seems to produce all the letters in the alumni magazine from the old farts who write stuff like "I never thought I'd see the day when the U of C would sink so low as to have a film major! Whatever happened to scholarship??" Yeah, lovely, guys.Nataliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07898457401179147102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1121741982443360662005-07-18T22:59:00.000-04:002005-07-18T22:59:00.000-04:00I was listening, and I enjoyed your comments very ...I was listening, and I enjoyed your comments very much.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your reply about Bloom. I agree that Bloom did a lot of finger-wagging, especially in the music chapter, but I forgave the scolding because I liked the general argument. But, like you, I read the book a long time ago . . .Kate Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1121737037037216242005-07-18T21:37:00.000-04:002005-07-18T21:37:00.000-04:00It's very cool that someone was listening. I read...It's very cool that someone was listening. <BR/>I read Closing of the American Mind when I was a callow undergraduate in 1987, so take this with grains of salt, but I felt that Bloom had a good argument and then let his tendency to be a scold take over. The idea that starting out with rock music would ruin one for later liking Mozart was so exactly the opposite of my experience (and that of a pretty good group of friends who liked both a lot) that I stopped trusting in Bloom then. <BR/>Also there's something about that UofC magisterial style that sets my teeth on edge (though I love Saul Bellow...).<BR/>So that's where the "equally annoying" quip came from.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1121733928548197572005-07-18T20:45:00.000-04:002005-07-18T20:45:00.000-04:00Thanks for distinguishing between Allan Bloom and ...Thanks for distinguishing between Allan Bloom and Harold Bloom on the show this evening. <BR/><BR/>I'm intrigued as to why you consider Allan Bloom equally as annoying as Harold Bloom, though I'm in sympathy with you about HB's annoying qualities!Kate Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com