/lit/ - Literature

>>16970914
He was one of my advisors at Yale back in the day.
Had an argument with him once about the nature of history. He took up the position that history repeats itself and therefore, politically, intervention was arbitrary. I lost all respect in that moment, realized that he was not a model scholar. That was my senior year and I never spoke a single word to him after that conversation.

His funeral was lovely, though.

>>16970914
He always looked like he was huffing a real stinker of a fart

He didn't study literature seriously. He was a dilettante and a moralist who whined and wailed about literature but never actually bothered to say anything interesting about it or make any worthwhile contribution to it. The definition of a charlatan. Good riddance to that fat white fuck.

>>16970914
(((Bloom)))

>>16970959
kill yourself shitskin.

>>16970942
>He took up the position that history repeats itself and therefore, politically, intervention was arbitrary.
this has nothing to do with literature though. a lot thinkers in the past believed in all sorts of dumb shit but their sound arguments still stand. you should be more ambiguous.

>>16970914
His legacy will be maintained more by his detractors than any of his supposed admirers. There will always be another think piece in the NYRB or New Yorker or whatever.

>>16970914
No. He was a joke himself

>>16970914
Hopefully.

>>16970914
imagine

>>16970914
He wasn't a terribly serious student of literature himself.

>>16970914
Refuted by the Maestro. Next.