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An Evening With George Steiner
- mellosouls 7y agoGreat read, thanks for posting. Steiner was insufferable at times but also at his best very enjoyable to listen to as an old-fashioned intellectual conversationalist that we don't get much exposure to anymore - at least in mainstream media. I always enjoyed seeing him pop up on TV or the radio - this article reminded me of a time he made Christian and easily-irritated debate host Melvyn Bragg snap at him for dismissing Christianity as a "Jewish heresy" or somesuch like an attention-seeking adolescent might. A curious mixture of cleverness and social awkwardness at times.