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Ironic. Bloom is kinda the real period piece. There’s a kind of deep connoisseurship of refined media that’s perversely blind to cultural evolution on larger scales. Reminds me of Martin Scorsese on MCU.
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HARRY POTTER (2000): "Not really children's literature, it's just slop...it's a period piece...in five or six years...they will be of interest to sociologists - the people who read them will not be able to remember what they read." Harold Bloom, Charlie Rose Show, July 11, 2000
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I’ll admit I got bored to tears by one chapter of Anxiety of Influence and never bothered exploring his work further beyond his Wikipedia page. He seems to have been an energetic and prodigious reader and critic, but fundamentally compromised by a reactionary lack of imagination.
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Or, it may indeed have been unremarkable when it first came out, but “everything else” tanked so hard that it stands out so much by contrast.
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