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Apologise.

>> No.17460897

>>17460872
jabba the hut lookin mf

>> No.17460910

I am so sorry

>> No.17460928

>>17460872
We didn't deserve him ;_;

>> No.17460931

>>17460872
toad-ass-lookin-smart-ass-lookin-stick-up-dey-ass-lookin-motherfucker

>> No.17460952
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17460952

Yeah, what's up with these sad poses? Does he think he's channeling Zero Mostel, or Charlie Chaplin?

Anyhoo, Bloom, I'm gonna give it to you straight. Pic related.

>> No.17460974

I like him as a person/personality, but I’ve found his writing on other authors to be lackluster and some of his opinions to be absolutely cancerous. I don’t believe it’s fair to say that Swinburne is a meat grinder who makes every poem sound the same, I don’t think it’s fair to shit on Poe(I quite like him) and I think his list of 100 geniuses is incredibly surface level on why he likes each author even those he considers his favorites (Shakespeare, Dante, William Blake)
Now add to this that his Kabbalistic correspondences of the writers is so incredibly off/incorrect, by this I mean, his grasp of how the sephiroth interact and correspond is so terribly off. How do you place Shakespeare as kether of Kether for example? It’s because he’s treating kether as first place and not as a distinct sephira, same with placing Oscar Wilde in binah, the sphere of hardship, suffering, cycles and legalism. He absolutely disregards the actual meaning of the sephiroth and makes them purely an aesthetic choice and then he thinks he deserves praise for application of lurianic Kabbalah to literary criticism.

Ultimately I like the guy, I enjoy his prose style even, I’d even say I like his taste. I just don’t agree with his criticism/critique.

>> No.17460979

Did the Great Awakening lead to good literature?

>> No.17460994

>>17460952
Bloom’s beef with Eliot starts and ends with Eliot calling Hamlet an artistic failure.

>> No.17461017

>>17460952
Honestly, I get the take from this but at the same time, why didn’t he just choose blake (who he says started his love of poetry) or dante (who he says is the only person he can think of who reaches to the same level of Shakespeare so consistently) over Shakespeare? I mean sure something like the Phoenix and the turtle is highly spiritual and his plays have many elements but if you wanted absolute mystical/spiritual flight into infinity, Blake and Dante would be far more logical.

>> No.17461043

>>17460994
>>17460952
crazy how people miss that his beef with Eliot is just his exemplifying the Anxiety of Influence lol.
>>17461017
bro what

>> No.17461073

>>17461043
Why didn’t he choose Blake or Dante (over Shakespeare) as his favorite and the one he shills so much ? I’m saying sure, he had romantic sensibilities but I don’t think it’s fair to say his taste was solely romanticism and mysticism/spirituality.