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November 02, 2004

Tom Wolfe on Susan Sontag

Jeff from Beautiful Atrocities explains to me how stupid I am by offering up this Wolfe slam of Sontag:

"Who was this woman? Who & what? An anthropological epidemiologist? A renowned authority on the history of cultures, a synthesizer of the magnitude of Max Weber, a Joachim Wach, a Sir James Frazer, an Arnold Toynbee?

"Actually, she was just another scribbler who spent her life signing up for protest meetings & lumbering to the podium encumbered by her prose style, which had a handicapped sticker valid at Partisan Review. Perhaps she was exceptionally hell-bent on proving Marshall McLuhan's line about indignation endowing the idiot with dignity, but otherwise she was just a typical American intellectual of the post-World War II period."

Heh.

The link goes to yet another key endorsement for Kerry-- permanent feminist victim and anti-porn nutball Andrea Dworkin.


posted by Ace at 01:57 PM
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indignation endowing the idiot with dignity

I like that.

Posted by: Scout on November 2, 2004 02:05 PM

I encourage anybody to go to Amazon and read an excerpt from any of her books.

Her prose is cumbersome and overworked. The literary equivalent of turning paint into mud by not knowing when to stop.

Bleah.

Posted by: lauraw on November 2, 2004 02:17 PM

Here's Wolfe on Chomsky:

"Having the faintest notion of what you were talking about was irrelevent. Any scholar or scientist who merely possessed profound knowledge in his own field did not qualify as an intellectual.
"The prime example was Chomsky, a brilliant linguist who figured out that language is a structure built into the central nervous system of Homo sapiens. But Chomsky was not known as an intellectual until he denounced the Vietnam War, something he knew absolutely nothing about - thereby qualifying for his new eminence."

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