Plato (not his real name BTW) was actually a very talented writer of Attic Greek. Aristotle is the bloviator. Heidegger's quasi-Joycean style is probably an imitation of Aristotle's.
--- On Sat, 4/11/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
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> Once I read Plato, I sort of took bloviation as an
> unavoidable feature of Western philosophy (Eastern
> philosophers, having gotten in on the game with a handsome
> headstart, were bloviating a long time before Plato stepped
> into his cave) -- Kant, Hegel (the little I could read of
> him) sharpened my filters and by the time I hit Heidegger I
> was well prepared! Later I came across Erasmus and Frege.
> Wish I had read them *before*!
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