''Having a relationship'' one of Bloom's favorite skits, Part 1

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This was a favorite of Bloom's. He refers to and explains it in the Closing on p.125.

Contrary to the silly depictions of Bloom by his enemies, he did not have a moralistic bone in his body.
In fact, he preferred to laugh at our absurdities, although he knew, too, that young people suffered under the oppression of all our efforts to remake the nature of human beings according to the liberal-scientific model of a homunculus.

There hardly was ever a man so free from moral indignation, and with such a divine and sordid sense of humor: another Aristophanes. Woody Allen was once heard to say that he was glad Allan Bloom went into academia, and how relieved he was when he heard Bloom had gotten tenure.

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  • Thank you for posting this. Reading Allan Bloom twenty years ago changed my life and set me on a journey I continue to enjoy. Cheers!

  • Thanks a lot. This is fantastic. Just started reading Allan Bloom as an undergraduate, after several years of post-structural meanderings. Again thanks for all the lectures you have posted.

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  • Bach to Bach! Love this!

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