>God I'm so glad to hear people give Sontag her due. She's the worst of the
>"public intellectuals," hands down. Should just write a damn book called
>"It's All About Me" and be done with it. She is, as Cockburn said of another
>person of her ilk, "a veritable popcorn machine of self-regarding blather."
There's a priceless bit in an Edmund White novel - I think it's The Beautiful Room Is Empty - about a very thinly siguised Sontag & her son, David Rieff, that describes them as rather incestuously attached, and consisting of "all self-love and fabulousness."
Doug