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Anonymous Tue Sep 29 15:50:39 2020 No.16472169 [Reply] [Original]

>Harold Bloom claimed to read at a rate of 400 pages per hour
Why didn't an interviewer or student just shit test him to find out if he was lying? All you would need is a newly published book that you've read and know the plot of. Give Bloom the book. And then at the end of thr hour, ask him to describe the plot and name some characters and basic facts. I guarantee Bloom would fail this test everytime. He also claimed to retain nearly everything so you could call him out on his bullshit by asking specific questions.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 15:52:55 2020 No.16472184 File: 36 KB, 739x415, images (7).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16472169 Bloom was an anglo pseud, no surprise that he would lie

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 15:55:06 2020 No.16472198 >>16472169 Because who cares about some irrelevant grandpa creaming his pants over Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 15:57:55 2020 No.16472219 >>16472169 I guess that he didn't really mean stuff he had not read before. Bloom had a prodigious memory, he could remember entire pages, and that would have improved his reading speed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 15:58:57 2020 No.16472229 >>16472169 I can't even turn that many pages in an hour.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:00:03 2020 No.16472237 >>16472169 >Why didn't an interviewer or student just shit test him to find out if he was lying Because they wouldn’t have had a career in academia after that

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:01:31 2020 No.16472244 >>16472184 the infamous anglokike hybrid

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:05:00 2020 No.16472265 >>16472237 Doubtful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:07:01 2020 No.16472277 >>16472198 This. Anytime I hear his name, I think of myopic Shakespeare worship and those stupid "covering cherubs" from The Anxiety of Influence. Utterly irrelevant. I'd rather read L. Ron Hubbard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:11:14 2020 No.16472310 >>16472169 >>16472184 >>16472198 >>16472277 Wow. Just a few years ago /lit/ worshipped Bloom. What happened?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:12:56 2020 No.16472322 Bloom reminds me of that principle from dead poets society.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:13:11 2020 No.16472324 >>16472310 New people comes in, memes change. Fun, right? Well, you would know if you weren’t new.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:14:54 2020 No.16472344 File: 123 KB, 1280x720, maxresdefault (4).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16472310 We worship Maestro now

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:16:15 2020 No.16472353

>>16472169
>Why didn't an interviewer or student just shit test him to find out if he was lying?
well you dont just go up to your extremely powerful and famous professor and challenge him based on a quote that anyone with an iq over 90 knows is bullshit and a consciously pompous joke

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:21:19 2020 No.16472397 >>16472353 I don't think it was a joke. Colleagues commented that seeing Bloom read was "scary".

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:27:33 2020 No.16472446 >>16472397 well maybe in that case he shouldve slowed down because there are a lot better scholars than him

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:52:19 2020 No.16472601 >>16472310 Chapofags pushing "theory" and "diverse voices". Bloom's too problematic now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:58:11 2020 No.16472629 >>16472310 place went from being smug about having good taste to being smug about having le based political views

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:05:09 2020 No.16472673 >>16472310 >>16472310 He's an angloid with no knowledge of other literatures like the Spanish one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:08:00 2020 No.16472691 >>16472601 Really? I thought it was the opposite: JBP-esq reactionaries riding off his "school of resentment" talk.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:10:58 2020 No.16472712 >>16472691 We always mocked JBP from what I could gather. Just like we have always mocked Guénon.

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:11:26 2020 No.16472716

>>16472691
Most people here liked him because he was anti-political correctness in the arts and that he created the first /lit/chart with the Western Canon book he released. It was also helpful to have a Jew as a mascot to keep /pol/fags away. The people who hate Bloom are the philopolitifags who came after the election (some may be Peterson fans). The types of guys who say "reading fiction is useless, you should read Marx".

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:12:16 2020 No.16472722 >>16472310 the only modern scholars worth reading are frogs

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:13:13 2020 No.16472730
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Reminder that no one, NOT ONE person on this board is intellectually serious enough to engage with Bloom and gain something from the experience. Everyone here either memes on him or looks up to him in some kind of faggot "anti-postmodernist" way, as a defender of the canon against feminists and other imaginary enemies. Almost no one has the brainpower and the knowledge to read even his most basic works (Anxiety of Influence or essays on Shakespeare) and comprehend them; the few who might actually be able to understand him are understandable turned off by the idiots spouting memes and stay away.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:18:20 2020 No.16472763 >>16472712 For the most part but there was a decent amount of time of Peterson posters. I just assumed they were the same people pushing Bloom simply for the anti-academia narrative.

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:20:10 2020 No.16472781
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>>16472310
Politicofags from /pol/ and /leftypol/ took over. This board is pretty much "recommend me books that are based according to the meme ideology I decided I believed yesterday" nowadays.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:20:43 2020 No.16472786 >>16472730 >he doesn't know about Flight to Lucifer

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:21:43 2020 No.16472794 >>16472712 >We always mocked JBP Nope.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:22:55 2020 No.16472800 >>16472794 >¿Where are the Marxists Jordan? >Wash your Penis >12 Rules for Washing Your Penis >Clean your room Suuuure lil bud

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:23:22 2020 No.16472804 Why is it that when I read fast sometimes it feels like a superpower and I know everything going on and other times I read fast I feel like I’m not even reading I’m just looking at words?

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:25:08 2020 No.16472820

>>16472716
Well literary theory in general has never been that popular here. A few get mentioned now and then but Bloom was significantly more popular, which I attribute to anti-academia and constant touting of canons rather than his actually criticism.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:25:31 2020 No.16472823 >>16472781 >recommend me books that are based according to the meme ideology I decided I believed yesterday The entire history of angloamerican academia is resumed in that assertion lmao

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:30:57 2020 No.16472863 >>16472310 We have taken the Guenon (pbuh) pill and are now esteem the great Sanskrit epics over the anti-traditional canon of the modern West

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:31:02 2020 No.16472865 >>16472310 I've always hated him and I've been here for a while now

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:33:03 2020 No.16472877 >>16472804 Concentration is a sliding scale. The cognitive resources you have access to changes depending on many different things.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:35:38 2020 No.16472891 >>16472237 And why not? If I were in a hiring position I'd totally want them as long as the rest of their credentials are up to snuff.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:37:35 2020 No.16472904 >>16472184 >>16472344 Basado

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:40:49 2020 No.16472923 >>16472229 prob get bad papercuts or something

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:41:47 2020 No.16472935 >>16472786 Based I've read voyage (found it in a charity shop) and it was scitzo, pretty original.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:42:08 2020 No.16472940 >>16472877 God damn it why can’t I just be a master at reading and processing and remembering things. ;-;

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 18:12:35 2020 No.16473132 >>16472940 You could, conceivably, become that. Just not all of the time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 18:41:26 2020 No.16473331 >>16472940 Just be born with a photographic memory. It's that easy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 20:21:27 2020 No.16473901 >>16472800 newfag, that shit was way after when /lit/ first started posting about him. He was well liked here before he got popular with normalfags and reddit, then /lit/ turned. Use warosu and educate yourself, retard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 20:22:29 2020 No.16473910 >>16472823 school of resentment took over /lit/ too

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 22:11:17 2020 No.16474395 >>16472169 Isn't this a character from the Mighty Boosh? the one with the tache?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 00:34:02 2020 No.16474944 >>16472800 >>16472794 zizek mogged him so hard he went into a benzo spiral only to come out the other side as a puppet to his derranged daughter (who happens to be an ultra-thot)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 00:39:46 2020 No.16474974 >>16472169 I watched an interview with him and he said he taught himself Yiddish by age two, some other language at age three, and taught himself to read in english by age four how do you teach yourself a foreign language at two fucking years old

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 07:03:44 2020 No.16475978 >>16472310 he died

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 07:24:57 2020 No.16476029 >>16474944 What's that got to do with anything?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 07:26:29 2020 No.16476033 File: 13 KB, 340x271, Batemandisgust.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16474974 >Yiddish >1930s Bronx >foreign language

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 07:31:15 2020 No.16476045 >>16472169 >And then at the end of thr hour, ask him to describe the plot and name some characters and basic facts. 'It involves Russia.'

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 07:35:34 2020 No.16476061 >>16474974 >he taught himself Yiddish I think he grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household? he also claims to have learnt english by reading william blake iirc

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 07:38:26 2020 No.16476074 >>16472169 Because no onegives a shit who big someone's e-peen is

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 07:59:10 2020 No.16476140 >>16474974 Terry Tao apparently taught his older brother to do Mathematics when he was like 4. I wouldn't underestimate what child prodigies can do.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 10:32:39 2020 No.16476831 Stories are meant to be read, aloud. You can't digest paragraphs at a time and experience the book properly. It's like watching a movie on 2x speed.

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