/lit/ - Literature

>But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

Why is Bloom such a genius? It's a shame he probably doesn't have many years left, because it seems nobody in the proceeding generations can match this kind of insight.

>JG: These people claim that Harold Bloom does great things for their children. I think they are deceiving themselves. I read the first book in the Bloom series, the one that's supposed to be the best. I was shocked. Every sentence there is a string of cliches, there are no characters – any one of them could be anyone else, they speak in each other's voice, so one gets confused as to who is who.
>IL: Yet the defenders of Harold Bloom claim that these books get their children to read.
>JG: But they don't! Their eyes simply scan the page. Then they turn to the next page. Their minds are deadened by cliches. Nothing is required of them, absolutely nothing. Nothing happens to them. They are invited to avoid reality, to avoid the world and they are not invited to look inward, into themselves. But of course it is an exercise in futility to try to oppose Harold Bloom.

>>6703060
What a pretentious philistine John Green is. Interviewer gives him a concrete demonstration of Bloom's effectiveness, and he just ignores it with presumptive sophistry and a 'no true reading' fallacy. Astounding people defend this hack.

>>6703076

You took the b8

>>6703082
fugg the old Greenbloom switcheroo has foiled me again >:DDD

>>6703082
No, you did.

>>6703060
He looks like such a creep.

>>6703088
No, you did.

>it's okay to get blacked out and drive because we have an immortal soul!

>>6703088

>twas_merely_a_ruse.jpg

>>6703013
>>6703060
>And I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for you Medellin kids.

>Asked about novelist Harold Bloom, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “I Suck Shakespeare's Cock: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Green says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘The Western Canon’ [regarded by many as Bloom’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”

>It’s all a clear indication, Green notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with Harold Bloom. We have no standards left. [Bloom] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’

>“It’s sort of a dark time. Imaginative energy I think is very difficult to summon up when there are so many distractions. There’s a kind of Grisham’s law [in literature]; the bad drives out the good.”

>We need never be
What do you call this kind of weird anachronistic writing that makes you wrinkle your nose

>>6703365
>I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’
What's the point of a canon if you're not allowed to reference it?

>>6703013
>>6703060
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>>6703514
Can we stop doing this please?

>>6703544
>please
What a cliche word. The epitome of false formality.

>>6703375
>basic, frequently used english construction
>weird and anachronistic
le 115iqer face