I noticed Billy talking [1]about how Richard Rorty had died… [2]and I finally got round to refreshing my memory on this guy.
Billy’s quite right; This happened about 5 decades too late… and I regret Billy never got the review as he mentions, finished.The NYT speaks in hushed, almost worshipful tones:
Raised in a home where “The Case for Leon Trotsky” was viewed with the same reverence as the Bible might be elsewhere,
Well, yeah, that’s about all I need to know, though of course I know far more about this guy than this, now that I’ve reminded myself. I won’t bore you with the specifics,or, God forbid, by reposting it, but I did manage to take a piece outta this guy back in the early 80’s on the old BBS in the op-ed section. (I was a more prolific writer back in those days).
Based on everything I’ve read about him, my guess is the intense heat will wake him up.
And before you get started, I’ll point out what I said to that mental midget Willis, last week:
That someone has died, does not immediately require me or anyone else, to leave the realm of the truth behind. The truth is far more important than the feelings of the dead, or their survivors. I’m neither inclined, nor required to lie about such a person.
And by the by, Billy, how is it you stumbled over Gitlin, anyway? I would be hard pressed to tell which was worse; Gitlin himself, or his commenters. What a magnificent twit this guy must be in real life.