thenoobyorker replied to your post: metonymia replied to your post: metonymia replied…

In the end the same dudes he aims to criticize come out looking better because of their replies to the book. say what you want about Bernard Lewis but he torches Said later in his life

Said never really had a firm foundation of what he was arguing for. He liked humanism but he recognized the limits of it, but he couldn’t conceive of a way around it.

Lewis is a douche. I just wanted to say that.