[lit-ideas] Re: Susan Sontag
- From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:25:41 -0500
Out of maybe a half-dozen sightings, I only saw Susan Sontag laugh once.
She and her lover Annie Liebovitz were in an audience gathered to
remember James Merrill, who had recently died of AIDS. Harold Bloom was
speaking, recounting an academic event in the Midwest where he and
Merrill were reading to a college audience. Bloom had taken a question
from a student about _J_. The student didn't understand how a woman
could have written some biblical texts that only God could have written.
Sweating, Bloom danced around the subject until it vanished in tedium.
James Merrill leaned toward him and said quietly, "It's always this way
when the Great Plains meets the Great Fancies."
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