tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post3321873465687810752..comments2024-03-29T03:56:08.315-04:00Comments on johnshaplin: Saul Bellow by Greg Bellowjohnshaplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-91487302308571107132013-09-19T14:35:39.486-04:002013-09-19T14:35:39.486-04:00Saul was always easily angered, prone to argument,...Saul was always easily angered, prone to argument, acutely sensitive, and palpably vulnerable to criticism. But I found the man Lesha called “young Saul” to grounded in a set of egalitarian social values, emotionally accessible, often soft, and possessed of the ability to laugh at the world’s folly and himself. Saul’s accessibility, lightheartedness and tolerance for opposing viewpoints all but disappeared as he aged, although he was, fundamentally, no less vulnerable.johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.com