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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