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“Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.” quote by Harold Bloom — Download Open image

“Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.”

Harold Bloom

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Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have…

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“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.”

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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

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The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

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