From my new post at David Horowitz’s NewsReal blog:
Thanks to that essential proto-blog, Arts & Letters Daily, I was directed to a fine essay by Anthony Daniels, praising that masterpiece of Western literature, Flaubert’s Un coeur simple.
Daniels acknowledges the irony: the very simplicity of Flaubert’s tale makes it hard to gush about; it’s like drawing attention to a piece of Shaker furniture by surrounding it by neon signs flashing: LOOK AT THIS FABULOUS CHAIR!!(…)
However, one of his paragraphs in particular jumped out at me.
