Comments on: Athens, Jerusalem and Gillette

By: Gil

Gil — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:07:21 +0000

H? Yeah, I’m pretty sure he does. He also got into a near-knock-down, drag-out brawl at his oral exam at St. John’s, with that tutor who was an incomprehensible genius; I’m blanking on the guy’s name right now.

H was discussing the Melian dialogues, and this tutor went after him in a pretty underhanded way. It was a hoot, esp. considering H once belonged to a paramilitary group of Aristotelians in Texas.

You meet some interesting people at St. John’s.

By: bobo

bobo — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:14:55 +0000

does he read Greek?

By: Gil

Gil — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:49:19 +0000

He’s got follicular (non-Hodgkins) lymphoma in the node under his ear. It’s treatable and non-aggressive, but the treatment causes that massive swelling.

Glad you liked the Bloomstuff. I never read anything connecting HB and LS either, but it’s neat to see how his map of misreading gets applied to that neocon movement.

My buddy H at broodingpersian.blogspot.com (now defunct, but the site still works) is a big Straussian who also detests the quick-and-easy version. And the Iliad’s his favorite book. I probably oughtta hook you guys up sometime.

By: bobo

bobo — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:50:42 +0000

one other thing: I haven’t watched an nba game in a while, but did something bad happen to Ernie Johnson’s head? He looks like the elephant man.

By: bobo

bobo — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:29:15 +0000

thanks for posting; knew about the bloom/bloom lovefest (from glancing through the wisdom book); strauss, however, was a revelation to me.

The Nets will get swept by Miami if they get to the second round. Shaq went into hibernation, but he’s awake now.