Bloom on BM

[rich]

had my first Dublin pint ever in Davy Byrnes

wish I was there

On 6/16/09, Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sadly, it's the other Bloom.
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> 2009/6/16 Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com>
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>> It's a sunny Bloomsday here in Dublin.
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>> And every bar has jazz playing.
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>> I've never understood the jazz part.
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>> Tara
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>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> "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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