18. Read Jaffa's long dedication to his book Condition of Freedom (1975)
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19. In dedication Jaffa describes intense friendship he had with student (they biked together & talked about the Greeks) who died in Vietnam
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20. To repeat: the homosocial overlaps with the homoerotic. Not all desires are acted on.
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21. Indeed for someone like Jaffa it could be that Bloom debased Platonic love by acting on it. The truest love is just wistful sighing.
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22. Bloom endangered the Straussian enterprise by making the esoteric exoteric, by opening the door of the philosophic closet.
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23. Man who wrote this dedication also fulminated against "sodomy": http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/jaffaletter.htm …
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24. My old essay on the Classics and the Closet relevant for thinking of Strauss & homosocial/homoerotic axis:http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/the-end-of-the-closet-the-end-of-the-classics/ …
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25. Harry Jaffa 1. broke with his closeted gay friend Allan Bloom 2. fulminated against "sodomy" 3. had intense friendship with male student
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Will Wilkinson 🌐
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@willwilkinson is working on a novel that will flesh out my Leo Strauss tweets:https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/442826672811671552 …Jeet Heer added,
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28. "Billy Pedersen": no novelist could get away with a name like that.
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29. Straussian Harvey Mansfield was very close to Bloom. Years after Bloom's death said he thinks about him every day.
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30. Mansfield also testified gay rights in Colorado case in early 1990s, saying anti-gay position could be defended on philosophic grounds
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