Bloom on BM

[Tara Brady]

It's a sunny Bloomsday here in Dublin.

And every bar has jazz playing.

I've never understood the jazz part.

Tara



2009/6/16 Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Livingston" <
> igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Bloom on BM
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> Do you mean his (Bloom's) Marxist orientation as an economic socialist
> or as a literary formalist?
>
> More as a comedian with a severe case of anxiety of influence.
>
> In other words Groucho not Karl.
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> Sorry for the confusion :-)
>
>
> P
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> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: Bloom on BM
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>>> In a Barnes & Noble college textbook store outside of NY,
>>> I found some big literary anthology with critics. In the store I read a
>>> moving-enough
>>> essay by Bloom on a reread of Lot 49. A reread set in the 00s
>>> after/during
>>> the buildup?
>>> to the Iraq war.....he nicely linked the paranoia then to the paranoia in
>>> the novella....he wrote
>>> of how this novella has lawys spoken to the paranopia of the times.....
>>>
>>> I thought this essay would be in one of his books and be easy to find. I
>>> didn't try as
>>> hard as I could, but it isn't easy to find......
>>>
>>> For What It is Worth.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>> Bloom is quite forthright about his Marxist orientation.
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>> "What ever it is I'm against it,"
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>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>> To: "pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:20:58 PM
>>> Subject: Bloom on BM
>>>
>>> http://www.avclub.com/articles/harold-bloom-on-blood-meridian,29214/
>>>
>>> a book I can't help revisiting every few years--wolves, apaches, gun
>>> smoke, and the Judge
>>>
>>> I don’t know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of
>>> sublime fiction from the last century, it probably would not be
>>> something by Roth or McCarthy; it would probably be Mason & Dixon, if
>>> it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it would
>>> probably be The Crying Of Lot 49. Pynchon has the same relation to
>>> fiction, I think, that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry: he is
>>> beyond compare.
>>>
>>>
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