/lit/ - Literature

"The gays, good heavens. A full 35 or 40 percent of major western author from the beginning to the present day might have been gay. Would be very safe to assume. William Shakespeare himself would appear to be bisexual whether or not scholar find an easy time in accepting that."
https://youtu.be/S9ieF7LVbyI?t=323

Is he right? Is /lit/ gay?

"The gays, good heavens. A full 35 or 40 percent of major western author from the beginning to the present day might have been gay. Would be very safe to assume. William Shakespeare himself would appear to be bisexual whether or not scholar find an easy time in accepting that."
https://youtu.be/S9ieF7LVbyI?t=323

Is he right is? Is /lit/ gay?

"The gays, good heavens. A full 35 or 40 percent of major western author from the beginning to the present day might have been gay. Would be very safe to assume. William Shakespeare himself would appear to be bisexual whether or not scholar find an easy time in accepting that."
https://youtu.be/S9ieF7LVbyI?t=323

Is he right is? Is /lit/ gay?

>I would think that, of all the books in this first list [of the Western Canon], once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran. Whether for its aesthetic and spiritual power or the influence it wull have upon all of our futures, ignorance of the Koran is foolish and increasingly dangerous."
- Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, Appendix A. p. 497

What the FUCK did he mean by this!!?? Bloom is a Jew, but he is a secular one. Is it at all possible he's warning us? Or he one of Them.

Not a /pol/ack, I swear. But this is concerning. Can anyone expound for pete's sake?

>We confront a crisis in scale when contemporary works are unable to sustain their ambitions. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is such a work. When I read it in 1996, it had been many years since a young novelist had dared to invest such commitment. Sadly, it did not come off. The result was akin to a large penis, impressive at first sight but too big for the blood to create a fully functional erection. Wallace's novel never got more than semistiff.

What was he saying here?

"Shakespeare doesn't have a Freud complex, Freud has a Shakespeare complex!"