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Anonymous Wed Jul 26 22:39:13 2023 No.22308806 [Reply] [Original]

Any other great spiritual guides to the western canon? I love Harold Bloom but I'm getting tired of his Jewish gnosticism. I desire more sober modes of appreciating "imaginative literature" than is given to me under Bloom's pragmatic usages of ancient eastern speculations centered around the "Eternal Self" and the stranger God who wanders on the outskirts of the universe looking for his lost divine sparks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 27 00:41:46 2023 No.22309208 File: 35 KB, 540x535, IMG_1513.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22308806 Yeah, the OG Mortimer Adler. Bloom's e n t i r e schtick was ripped off from Adler. History won't remember HB kindly. But he got away with it while he was alive.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 27 00:49:09 2023 No.22309233 >>22308806 Paglia's Sexual Personae is a comfy read. Bloom was her PhD supervisor so it's unsurprising that they're alike.

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