A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.
}, year = {1990}, journal = {Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {14.3 (154)}, pages = {56-75}, month = {03/1990}, issn = {1065-6298 }, isbn = {978-1-64524-058-7 }, note = {Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574.
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