happy birthday harold bloom!

[Dave Monroe]

Why do I get the feeling that that, er, compliment was written with pen firmly in
left hand?  Hm ...

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

>  "on his work one can refer when one wants to remind european intellectuals that
>  supposedly only among - the minority of - literary readers in the society of
>  the united states a perhaps naive but in any case encouraging belief into
>  literature has still remained unbroken."
>
>  (hans ulrich gumbrecht in today's faz, page 49)
>
>  harold bloom was born 70 years ago.
>
>                                                                    kfl