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Anonymous Sun Jun 10 23:35:41 2018 No.11303276 [Reply] [Original]

>“It all started with that absolute dreadful creature Ronald Reagan,” he continues. “It was Reagan who came along and persuaded the whole nation that it was all right to be selfish, that it was an American virtue to be selfish. And all of these Tea Party-ites wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t been for Reagan as their trailblazer. Incredible, the cigar-store Indian George W. Bush…the worst president in American history. The more-than-outrageous, the insufferable Donald Trump in today’s newspaper describes Obama as the worst president in American history. I’ll tell you what’s scary. Just one step beyond, and it will be early Nazi Germany. If the Tea Party, which already has a huge majority in the House, should also capture the Senate, you might start seeing sanctioned violence.” He also decries that group’s “racism, endless racism,” noting members of it have depicted the President of the United States as a chimpanzee.

http://wwd.com/eye/people/the-full-bloom-3592315/

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Anonymous Sun Jun 10 23:40:45 2018 No.11303294

>>11303276
No mention of Shakespeare? Fake as fuck.

Also bullshit either way. Murica was created by upper classes shitheads who bitched about paying taxes, then had a fucking civil war over the right to enslave people. Selfishness is part of the US of A DNA.

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Anonymous Sun Jun 10 23:42:24 2018 No.11303302

>>11303294
What are you talking about?

>Bloom famously places William Shakespeare at the center of the canon of English literature. New York’s Morgan Library currently has on display a Jacobean portrait that the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust believes to be the only painting made of Shakespeare in his lifetime, which had hung unrecognized in an Irish country house for centuries. But Bloom doesn’t really buy this attribution. “I think it’s very dubious,” he says. “He’s a dashing caballero, but I have grave doubts that that could be Shakespeare.…They have no real evidence.”

>Bloom also doesn’t like most filmed versions of Shakespeare, except, he says, Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood,” the great Japanese director’s 1957 version of “Macbeth” and “Ran,” his 1985 version of “King Lear.” He once debated this notion on a panel with critic Frank Kermode; Kermode apparently said, “But they’re not in English.” Bloom’s response: “That’s the point.” He says, “Kenneth Branagh in particular is a low point, glitzy, like a musical by Cole Porter — a bad musical by Cole Porter.”

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Anonymous Sun Jun 10 23:42:50 2018 No.11303306
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>>11303276
>Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
>It’s all a clear indication, Bloom notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. [Wallace] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’
>“It’s sort of a dark time. Imaginative energy I think is very difficult to summon up when there are so many distractions. There’s a kind of Grisham’s law [in literature]; the bad drives out the good.”

lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 10 23:48:51 2018 No.11303332 >>11303306 > He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent. >seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him Based.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 10 23:56:06 2018 No.11303360 >>11303302 wtf bloom is a weeb?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 01:11:55 2018 No.11303595 File: 20 KB, 480x360, andalusians dog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11303306 >Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 01:37:05 2018 No.11303676 >reagan was a cause and not an effect Whata brainlet

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 01:43:09 2018 No.11303697 File: 237 KB, 728x424, james-buchanan.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11303276 >George W. Bush…the worst president in American history

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 01:44:06 2018 No.11303703 >>11303306 I'm not a DFW fanboy but the author of the Flight to Lucifer accusing anyone else of being able to write is profoundly ironic

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 01:45:11 2018 No.11303708 >>11303703 You don't need to be a great cook to tell if the food is shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 01:45:29 2018 No.11303712 >>11303302 branagh's adaptions are abominable https://youtu.be/zuDSK8VhDPY

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 01:57:54 2018 No.11303752 >>11303712 The Globe Theater productions are the only ones worth watching. Or would be, if not for their insistence upon the use of black actors. I can never take it seriously, although I would if they wore whiteface.

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Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:13:44 2018 No.11303789

>>11303752
the globe is a tourist trap. it's common denominator commerce and inertia. it isn't art.
there are plenty of companies doing fine shakespeare all over. but so many more companies are doing horrendous shakespeare; and what little of the public that still attends the theatre, most have no discernment and take it all as one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:16:22 2018 No.11303796 >>11303302 >literally I LIKE THE SUB BECAUSE I CAN PROJECT MY FEELINGS ONTO IT holy shit Bloom was a mistake

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:17:16 2018 No.11303799 >>11303676 This. If anything he should blame LBJ and the 1965 immigration act. Multiethnic societies are bound to become selfish societies. The development of racism is also a direct consequence of that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:18:44 2018 No.11303806 >>11303799 >The development of racism is also a direct consequence of that. Top tier /lit/ humour.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:19:19 2018 No.11303808 >>11303799 america was always multiethnic retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:20:19 2018 No.11303812 >>11303808 No wonder it was always a selfish hellhole.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:20:23 2018 No.11303813 >>11303806 not him but it's not even conceptually possible to develop racism if there aren't people of notably distinct races/backgrounds, so he's not wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:23:57 2018 No.11303822 >>11303812 The North is selfish, the South has always been communal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:26:23 2018 No.11303827 >>11303822 communal in the sense of plutocracy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:27:11 2018 No.11303829 >>11303822 Well, was having Murica in mind given the post chain and all. Though now that you say it, the difference is really stunning.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:27:38 2018 No.11303831 >>11303827 whatever helps you sleep at night wageslave yankee

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:32:15 2018 No.11303842 Bloom is a jew so you have to excuse his political opinions

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:54:12 2018 No.11303925 >>11303306 >Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace brutal

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 02:58:01 2018 No.11303930 >>11303831 I'm from Alabama. Antebellum plantation systems were an economic dead-end either way you look at it, and modern Southern culture is just welfare slavery.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 06:35:05 2018 No.11304358 >>11303276 >oy vey idsa nutha shoa is this real? its embarrassing

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Anonymous Mon Jun 11 14:02:34 2018 No.11306012
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>>11303306
>But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”

at last, a man with good taste

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 11 15:41:10 2018 No.11306470 >blaming things on individuals rather the material system Absolutely non-dialectic. If Reagan didn't exist, someone else would have done his work. 90% of his ideas were fed to him by the Heritage Foundation.