A Review, by the staff of Wikiality.com Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James What this book lacks in pompous self-aggrandizement, it makes up for with "hubris, audacity, and over-weening pride." Again, that would normally be something we might embrace here at the Wikiality.com tubes. After all, irony is On Notice, so self-reflection isn't necessarily something we're keen to expect in public figures. But in someone who puts himself forward as a model of anti-"anti-intellectualism," it's just unacceptable to act like a big, fat, bloviating, pompous idiot.