---Jim heartfield <jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I should hope that Bloom was not generous to women, or to men in the
> critical judgements he made. Generosity does not make for good
> judgements. If he failed to notice that women, far from being excluded
> from the history of literature, have been the principle developers of
> the novel form, then he was a fool.
True--when I wrote "generous" I meant it ironically, not as a measure of gratuitous appraisal.
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