Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Do the Bartman

If you were a fan of baseball in the late 1980s, or if you went to Yale (Joe, I'm looking metaphorically at you), or if you are a scholar of 16th-century English epic poetry, or if you are Pete Rose, you may be interested in a review of mine freshly posted at Bookforum.com, discussing a new biography of the late president of Yale/commissioner of baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti.
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4 comments:

  1. Joe LevyMarch 21, 2007 at 1:43 PM

    Um . . . in what way is that look metaphorical? I mean, I went Yale. I think I know what a metaphor is.

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  2. PikeMarch 21, 2007 at 1:54 PM

    You "went Yale"? How peculiar.

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  3. Tom NawrockiMarch 21, 2007 at 3:19 PM

    The look was metaphorical since I cannot physically see you. "Looking" becomes a stand-in for the idea of "recalling your days at New Haven," and thus can be accounted as a metaphor.

    Or so they taught us at DeVry.

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  4. Joe LevyMarch 22, 2007 at 9:12 AM

    I did go Yale. Sadly. More peculiar than you know.

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