https://mackncheezemusic.blog/10-ways-to-make-peace-with-the-echoes/

#HaroldBloom #KirbyFerguson #MackncheezeMusic

Just kinda, you know…

putting this out there…

#HaroldBloom on #JKRowling

Link (#LATimes, Sept. 19, 2003): https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-19-oe-bloom19-story.html

I am inclined to believe that the best poetry, whatever its intentions, is a kind of theology, while theology generally is bad poetry.
-- Harold Bloom

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HaroldBloom #Poetry #Theology

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

I am inclined to believe that the best poetry, whatever its intentions, is a kind of theology, while theology generally is bad poetry.
-- Harold Bloom

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HaroldBloom #Poetry #Theology

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #LakeSantaFe #Florida

#Lizzo ya toma Ozempic; el #fascismo va al alza en el #mundo; el #futuro no parece nada bueno. ¿Se está cumpliendo la profecía de un filósofo italiano y un crítico machista?
Léanlo en mi #artículo del mes en #LiteralMagazine.
https://literalmagazine.com/lizzo-ya-toma-ozempic/

#literatura #artículos #actualidad #autoritarismo #HaroldBloom #GiambattistaVico #filosofía #política #música

as for #shakespeare, while #HaroldBloom was quite mad, i really admire the passion and candor of his ‘bardolatry’ and enjoy his writing on the plays waaaaay out of proportion to their analytical value (analytical ≠ ‘critical’ of course)

whatever else he was, bloom was the #JulianJaynes of his field, which i dig

Mai he llegit a #shakespeare, però ara estic llegint un #llibre sobre la seva obra ("Shakespeare, l'invencio del que és humà", de #HaroldBloom) i contínuament fa referència a un personatge, #Falstaff, del que mai n'he sentit a parlar. Friso per arribar a la part del llibre en què l'analitza.

Today was #HaroldBloom’s birthday (he would’ve been 93). Our 2015 conversation was one of my all-timers, so give it a listen http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-151-harold-bloom

#podcast #podcastodon #books #bookstodon #literature

"Whoever debases others is debasing himself. --- James Baldwin

These quotes come from and essay by Julius Lester and I confess I haven't read the whole work. But I'm grateful for the quotes. I need more time to read and think about the rest of the writing....

“Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves: the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his” (“Many Thousands Gone”).

.> And if one cannot be human to oneself, it is impossible to be human to another. By 1960 Baldwin had honed this theme into one well-crafted sentence:

..> “It is a terrible, and inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself ” (“Fifth Avenue Uptown”).

What I tried to do, or to interpret and make clear was that what the republic was doing to black people it was doing to itself. No society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences and the consequences are chaos for everybody in the society. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, of course, later on you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

Vermeer’s luminous interiors gave us a new way into the inner worlds of others
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/12/vermeer-luminous-interiors-gave-new-way-into-inner-worlds-others?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#JohannesVermeer
#MarilynneRobinson
#HaroldBloom
#KenanMalik

"I believe in life after nonsense"

#dekonstruksjonspoesi #deconstructionpoetry #blackoutpoetry #haroldbloom #poesi #poetry #wordart

"He hears Salamano's plaintive cry, "like a flower growing out of the silence and darkness"; somehow this bleak cry is seen as something fragrant and positive. Out of the negative, something good is still possible, a key idea that will inform the novel's conclusion and is heralded as well at the end of chapter four." (Harold Bloom, Albert Camus's the Stranger (Bloom's Guides))
#absurdism #camus #haroldbloom #thestranger