It seems to me that, if anything, deep truths are more usually expressed as riddles and paradoxes than as tautologies.
But maybe this is prejudice: I loathe Harold Bloom.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Bennett" <bennett.mab at gmail.com>
Mary McCarthy, re: Lillian Hellman
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:59:49 -0400
> // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
> > > "All truth is a deep tautology." - Harold Bloom
> >
> > Such a terrible statement. I hope you don’t agree with
> > it (even with the escape clause via addition of “deep”).
>
> Oh it's awful on every level, if you look at it closely.
> Every word is wrong, really. Including "is" and "a", to paraphrase
> who, Diana Trilling?
>
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