Bloom on BM

[Paul Mackin]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tara Brady 
  To: Paul Mackin 
  Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:36 PM
  Subject: Re: Bloom on BM


  Sadly, it's the other Bloom.




  2009/6/16 Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com>

    It's a sunny Bloomsday here in Dublin.

    And every bar has jazz playing.

    I've never understood the jazz part.

    Tara


    Yeah, it sure doesn't fit.

    EU?

    Prosperity?  (now fading)

    I liked it when you couldn't cross Dublin without passing a pub.

    P.









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



      ----- 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

      On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:


        ----- 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




          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,"






          ----- 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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