I was going to take the time to craft a witty and facetious takedown of Lee Siegel, but then decided to let the apparent shittiness of his personality, his behavior, his opinions, and his ideas speak for itself. Besides, there are plenty of perfectly good smackdowns (see here, here, and most succinctly, here) out there already.
As an apology for hitting the guy when he's down, I'll direct a wee smidgen of web traffic to his unbelievably awful "electronic journal" for Slate, where he somehow succeeds in outdoing even the Slatiest of Slate contributors for tedious middle-aged stream-of-consciousness boringness.
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