Chris Scott calls The Book of Absolutes “ponderously titled.” He then goes on to write the following:
* “postmodern zanies”
* “emit distinct whiffs of reactionary powder”
* “He has many other devices tacked to his banner.”
* “The opening concessive clause of this clumsy sentence is a misplaced modifier of Mill's work.”
* “Postmodernists arrogate terms like relativity and evolution from physics and biology, overlooking the fact that in the humanities they are at best metaphors, at worst tendentious amplifiers of left-wing posturing.”
* “Thus, from a heterodox scattering of isms, a new and terrible orthodoxy slouches towards Parnassus, trumpeting its Nietzschean transvaluation of values from the tops of ivory (or red-brick) towers.”
* “in what may be termed the negative side of his Thomist dialectic”
Pretentious? Ponderous? Moi?
I did like this, however:
“lays siege to cloud castles”
(link).
