http://patterico.com/2005/01/11/rutten-on-memogate/ Harangues that just make sense Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:43:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://patterico.com/2005/01/11/rutten-on-memogate/#comment-7870 Dark Wind Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=2568#comment-7870 Rutten was probably too busy reading Stevie Smith's collected poems and W.S. Merwin's luminous translations of Chamfort's aphorisms to bother with all of the Thornburgh/Boccardi report. Rutten reveals himself in a recent elegy on the death of Susan Sontag as an insufferably pretentious gasbag with delusions of intellectual grandeur. Rutten was probably too busy reading Stevie Smith’s collected poems and W.S. Merwin’s luminous translations of Chamfort’s aphorisms to bother with all of the Thornburgh/Boccardi report. Rutten reveals himself in a recent elegy on the death of Susan Sontag as an insufferably pretentious gasbag with delusions of intellectual grandeur.

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