― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
!!!
― Roz, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
ive been reading him all spring for fun. thats right, FOR FUN.
― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
what you mean like when he's on the beach?
― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― That's not cocaine! It's Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
F to L is like barbarella, only written by uh harold bloom. if they ever made a movie of it, ornaldo would have to be in it, as the nerdy one who doesn't get any sex. and it would suck, cos he does, and the novel does too.
― g e o f f (gcannon), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Milo Bloom over all.
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― ms. prision, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― ms. prision, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
(his newer books are terrible)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
isnt that better than the reverse, tho
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Friday, 5 October 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
possibly. it was a bit harsh, anyway.
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 October 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
finally
― cheese canopy (map), Monday, 14 October 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
In loving memory of Harold Bloom, here's a clip I just remembered of a C-Span caller asking him about the poem "Real Eyes/Realize/Real Lies." His reaction is priceless pic.twitter.com/ua185Px014— Patrick Swanson (@patrickswanson) October 14, 2019
― flopson, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-harold-bloom/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
i'm rly fond of his shakespeare book
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
i really like harold bloom cause one of the only english lit courses i took in college was taught by a Bloom stan, and he was a fantastic teacher who basically just wanted to make sure we really enjoyed shakespeare and didn't care all that much about the analytical quality of our essays. seeing my the cool lit ppl in my twitter feed celebrate his death was kinda surprising lol
― flopson, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
I learned a lot about How to Read from Bloom.m
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
seeing my the cool lit ppl in my twitter feed celebrate his death was kinda surprising lol
this line from the obit j.d. posted throws a sad light i was unfamiliar w on the trajectory that probably led to this:
There was an actual son, rumored to be troubled—either in mind or body—and much beloved. It was for the sake of his health care, it was said, that Bloom had submitted to the indignity of writing all those cheesy Chelsea House introductions and then The Western Canon, the work where he sold out most clearly to a side in a game of politics and political criticism he’d previously refused to play.
i haven't read any of that tho and "basically just wanted to make sure we really enjoyed shakespeare" is my experience of his approach as well
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
Still stanning for Milo Bloom of Bloom County tbrr
― seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
sexually harassed Bobbi iirc
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
guilty lol @ that
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
yeah also a fan of his shakespeare book. was never really able muster up strong feelings about either side of the canon wars stuff, everybody should just read good books all the time, idgaf.
i also encountered a few Very Online lit ppl in my feeds dunking on his death and its just like, dude liked different books than you, big deal, chill out and go read a book.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
He had impeccable, albeit limited, taste. Anyway my challop is that he was both good and bad.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Just realized that if weren’t for him and those Chelsea House books I might never have moved out of my parents’s house.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Saw this too. Twitter is disgusting.
The story about his son’s illness prompting his “commercial” turn is true, or at least I’ve heard it from a short grapevine. However, I think his partisanship—while maybe part a publicity thing—was true. He was a humanist and didn’t like the constructivist account of subjectivity that, in various permutations, lie behind all the theoretical approaches he lumped under “the school of resentment”
― treeship., Thursday, 17 October 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
The people cheering his death are probably not his enemies in the academy as much as people who only know about him via the naomi wolf accusation. Just realized this.
― treeship., Thursday, 17 October 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Those Chelsea House books, intimidating and colorful, impressed me in high school, and his categorical dismissals I emulated in my early years.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
apart from the naomi wolf thing the accusations of harassment et al have been pretty lacking in specifics, unless calling everyone "my dear" counts
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
thats a really nice piece alfred
the naomi wolf thing is a legit reason to think he sucks, but in the extremely limited sample of people I follow on social media, the negative comments from the hot take brigade were mostly all variations of "finally we're free of this suffocating promoter of Dead White Men", as if he had been actively going around burning other people's manuscripts. So dumb.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
a friend who studied with him (and is/was an attractive woman) said he was a wonderful teacher, funny and unusually kind
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
umm
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
OK wow i just checked in on what people are saying on twitter.
― treeship., Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link