Adam Smith has beautiful moments as well, but he usually rises to the occasion when he wants to deflect the reader from a weak point in his argument by telling a wonderful story.
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 04:55:23PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >What is wierd is that he can also write in a boring style & then
> >suddenly shift to
> >this sort of mode.
>
> That's kind of beautiful sometimes. I love it when he's going on
> about money, and then has what Geoffrey Hartman once called a
> Shelleyan screech about blood and soil. Or quote Pindar as a gloss on
> English factory reports.
>
> Doug
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