October 26th, 2009 / 4:59 pm
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Harold Bloom.

Harold Bloom.

37 Comments

  1. October 26th, 2009 / 9:00 pm Blake Butler—

      snap!

  2. October 26th, 2009 / 5:00 pm Blake Butler—

      snap!

  3. October 26th, 2009 / 9:02 pm alec niedenthal—

      i like how his eyes are shut like a petted cat

  4. October 26th, 2009 / 5:02 pm alec niedenthal—

      i like how his eyes are shut like a petted cat

  5. October 26th, 2009 / 9:27 pm Nathan Tyree—

      Is that Titus Andonicus?

  6. October 26th, 2009 / 5:27 pm Nathan Tyree—

      Is that Titus Andonicus?

  7. October 26th, 2009 / 9:34 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      wish that worked

  8. October 26th, 2009 / 5:34 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      wish that worked

  9. October 26th, 2009 / 9:46 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I mean – decapitating oneself, sucking oneself off, then reattaching the head.

  10. October 26th, 2009 / 5:46 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I mean – decapitating oneself, sucking oneself off, then reattaching the head.

  11. October 26th, 2009 / 9:48 pm Tadd Adcox—

      I’m going to go someplace and cry myself to sleep now.

  12. October 26th, 2009 / 5:48 pm Tadd Adcox—

      I’m going to go someplace and cry myself to sleep now.

  13. October 26th, 2009 / 11:32 pm Clapper—

      I bet Jesus could do it. See January 20th here for something close.

  14. October 26th, 2009 / 7:32 pm Clapper—

      I bet Jesus could do it. See January 20th here for something close.

  15. October 26th, 2009 / 11:40 pm Justin Rands—

      heaven

  16. October 26th, 2009 / 7:40 pm Justin Rands—

      heaven

  17. October 27th, 2009 / 12:42 am Justin Taylor—

      When any of you actually grow a pair and read one of his books–or ten–you’ll be sorry you all behaved like such assholes.

  18. October 26th, 2009 / 8:42 pm Justin Taylor—

      When any of you actually grow a pair and read one of his books–or ten–you’ll be sorry you all behaved like such assholes.

  19. October 27th, 2009 / 1:01 am Ken Baumann—

      Mean Week!

  20. October 26th, 2009 / 9:01 pm Ken Baumann—

      Mean Week!

  21. October 27th, 2009 / 1:05 am Ken Baumann—

      p.s. Attacking reverence, the reverent & their idols is fun.

  22. October 26th, 2009 / 9:05 pm Ken Baumann—

      p.s. Attacking reverence, the reverent & their idols is fun.

  23. October 27th, 2009 / 2:19 am Justin Taylor—

      Right there with you, man. I’m just issuing fair warning- fun is fun till it’s a hangover. And herpes.

  24. October 26th, 2009 / 10:19 pm Justin Taylor—

      Right there with you, man. I’m just issuing fair warning- fun is fun till it’s a hangover. And herpes.

  25. October 27th, 2009 / 2:23 am alan—

      but would he? WWJD?

  26. October 26th, 2009 / 10:23 pm alan—

      but would he? WWJD?

  27. October 27th, 2009 / 2:35 am Jonny Ross—

      i like his shit on shakespeare. really good. authoritative, and all that. some of the stuff he includes on different forms of mysticism and voodoo religions kind of throws me. i don’t know.

  28. October 26th, 2009 / 10:35 pm Jonny Ross—

      i like his shit on shakespeare. really good. authoritative, and all that. some of the stuff he includes on different forms of mysticism and voodoo religions kind of throws me. i don’t know.

  29. October 27th, 2009 / 3:19 am drew kalbach—

      you clearly don’t have herpes.

  30. October 26th, 2009 / 11:19 pm drew kalbach—

      you clearly don’t have herpes.

  31. October 27th, 2009 / 5:01 am Ross Brighton—

      I have. It was shit. His brother Leopold is far nicer, but thinks about fucking too much.

  32. October 27th, 2009 / 1:01 am Ross Brighton—

      I have. It was shit. His brother Leopold is far nicer, but thinks about fucking too much.

  33. October 27th, 2009 / 5:44 am Clapper—

      JW totes D it.

  34. October 27th, 2009 / 1:44 am Clapper—

      JW totes D it.

  35. October 27th, 2009 / 2:41 am Garett Strickland—

      He’s a Gnostic, which makes me happy.

      I’m also quick to mention that many who respect Bloom as a literary authority (often of a type entrenched in middle-brow elitism quick to dismiss innovation) rarely understand that, by Bloom’s own standards of canonization, literature BELONGS to the avant-garde. Lots of surprisingly bold shit on those lists.

      Of course, having never read him — whatevs!

  36. October 27th, 2009 / 6:48 pm stephen—

      bloom is the rare passionate believer in the value of literature in the age after the age of words-are-endless-referents, there-are-no-authors, gender-queer-ethnic-studies-eating-animals-is-wrong-holocaustholocaust-theory academia

  37. October 27th, 2009 / 2:48 pm stephen—

      bloom is the rare passionate believer in the value of literature in the age after the age of words-are-endless-referents, there-are-no-authors, gender-queer-ethnic-studies-eating-animals-is-wrong-holocaustholocaust-theory academia