From: Steven Budden (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 14:33:44 PDT
I believe call him because he is the embodiment of the perfect perpetrator.
I think he's great. Good ole Harold.
Steven
"Who is Mr. Bloom? I think I already know but can't be sure (Harold Bloom?). And why call him?"
-----Original Message-----
From: James Macgillivray <email suppressed>
To: email suppressed
Sent: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:24:18 +0000
Subject: Re: The Politics of Avant-Garde Language
db wrote:
>It is inherently elitist
>It demands exclusion from "a canon" based upon popularity (rather than the >content of the work itself)--calling Mr Bloom!
>It presupposes 'experts' who have some special ability to define status >for everyone else--calling Mr Bloom! (again)
>It repeats the cloistering of knowledge as a mean of somehow 'controlling' >information--why won't Mr Bloom return my calls!
Who is Mr. Bloom? I think I already know but can't be sure (Harold Bloom?). And why call him?
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