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Entry Posted April 11, 2005

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/cast01_.html I don’t have any particularly strong feelings for or against Susan Sontag, but this strikes me as a particularly vulgar reminiscence. (Especially the way in which Sontag is diminished through selective quoting.) 08:29

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… we'd all be found insufficient. But I do agree that Joseph Epstein's stomach-patting panda prose has helped pad and defang the modern essay into a fuddy-dud diversion that makes E. B. White look wintry-raw by comparison. I wonder if Cristina has readTerry Castlein significant dosage. I must remind myself to ask her the next time our sailboats meet. …

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