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Who will I turn to when he's gone? Who will be my guide through the darkness? Who will teach me to love language and the idea of an idea as much as him? Who will help me know myself by helping me know those that came before?

I don't want him to leave...

>> No.11086049

Delete this ;--;

>> No.11086064

>>11086039
Dont know why he looks so sad in every oicrelated. Old bloke still has some time left.

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>>11086039
Don’t know what he always looks so sad on this board. He still had a few years in him.

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>>11086064
>>11086068
I hope so.

>> No.11086092

>>11086077
DELETE THIS ;-;

>> No.11086206

>>11086039
It's not like all his published works are going to disappear suddenly.

>> No.11086224

>>11086206
Yeah, I know but, one day, Bloom is going to disappear suddenly...

>> No.11086398

>>11086039
Honest question, should I get into his books?
I've been eyeing How To Read and Why. I own his Best Poems book which is pretty interested and very well written.

>> No.11086472

>>11086398
>Honest question, should I get into his books?
Absolutely, in my opinion. He loves literature more than anyone I've ever seen in my entire life and there's probably not been another person I consider who's made me more excited about the aesthetics of words and the transference of ideas through time, outside of my favorite writers. And it just makes me smile seeing that old bastard's pure joy on his face when he recites, from memory, one of his favorite passages. He's a meme here and people will think I'm memeing when I say what I just said but I don't care. I legitimately love Bloom. And I am worried about when he's gone because I don't really know anyone who's going to take up and carry his cross. I mean, James Woods at Harvard always comes up but I just don't get the same feeling I get when he discusses stuff that I do with Bloom.

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>>11086068
>>11086077
>>11086064

Read his comments in Library of America's remembering Ashberry and remembering Guin, he sounds straight up ready to die.

https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1323-remembering-john-ashbery-writers-pay-tribute#bloom

https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1375-fellow-writers-remember-ursula-k-le-guin-1929-2018#bloom

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>> No.11086917

>>11086224
So what, there's millions of better writers.

>> No.11086930

>>11086039
hes a fucking shit critic tho

dude has literally admitted to not reading half of what he gives his opinion of

also has the most basic bitch of taste

>> No.11086931

>>11086472
fuck youre autistic

>> No.11087045

He's less than a midwit compared to someone like Erich Auerbach and all of you "omg whomstever shall be our guiding light when he dies" purple bootlickers are pathetic.

>> No.11087249

I'm sure there are other glorified book reviewers on the market.

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>c-could you fet- *cough* f-fetch me my copy of Hamlet, dear anon? i-i'm afraid i don't have the strength to ge- *cough* get up anymore. l-let me r-read it one last time...

>> No.11087579

>>11086064
its what he failed to stop is what saddens him

>> No.11088299

>>11086472
What Bloom's book should I get first?

>> No.11088320

>>11086588
I have no books and I must read