happy birthday harold bloom!

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "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