<p>Erich Segal, of course. I realized too late that I could have used the
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html to make clear that this particular personal reminiscence wasn’t personal to me, but I thought that it was recognizable enough (which was the point) that no one was likely to be misled. For those of our generation, it’s hard not to feel a little sad that they are shuttering the place where Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavalleri met. (While remembering that beefs about the stepchild quality of the Quad predate the current use of it.)</p>
<p>I don’t think I ever saw the place. I did spend time visiting my cousins in what was then North House, but that was during the brief period in my life when I was embarassed to admit how much I had loved Love Story. </p>
<p>Allan Bloom = The University of Chicago. To which I also have ties, but far too recent ever to have met him. Yale’s Bloom was Harold.</p>
<p>But that kind of mistake is apparently common among the educated. During my disciple phase, one of my Harvard cousins, then a professor at Princeton, scolded me, “The average Princeton undergraduate thinks that Harold Bloom is the main character in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Which is entirely the correct attitude towards Harold Bloom AND James Joyce’s Ulysses.”</p>