To be fair to Weekes I feel like that describes nearly every author at The Mary Sue - a frustrating mix of “Good point” and “Oh for fuck’s sake.”
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True that
Yeah, it’s why I’ll read the articles occasionally but never link to them. It’s just, it really hit me that Bloom’s death isn’t being covered at all, and this was all I found. Kind of funny, really. Guess he wasn’t half as important as he thought he was!
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It’s been all over my Twitter feed. But I follow a lot of writers/English Lit people, and people who follow Naomi Wolf.
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They covered it on NPR, but I can’t say if other news outlets focused on his death…
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NYT, New Yorker, Times of Israel. It looks to be very specific as to community/locale.
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Blooms’ mentions from AL Daily.
Harold Bloom , “a singular breed of scholar-teacher-critic-prose-poet-pamphleteer,” has died. He was 89… James Wood… Graeme Wood… Michael Dirda… Justin A. Sider… Dwight Garner… James Romm… Marco Roth… Lucas Zwirner… Guardian… AP… more »
and since siders article is titled " Dipping Our Knives Into Harold Bloom’s Body", one can expect to find a few more.
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What fictional character shares his surname, someone out of Joyce? Or am I way off? (not looking up, I await your response by eating a can of worms)
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Ulysses-- Molly Bloom, Leopold Bloom,
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Thank you. For some reason, Harold sounded like it was the correct name; or perhaps I thought “Harold Bloom” was a character played by Peter Sellers…and Leopold Bloom was the character Gene Wilder played in “The Producers”…and Sellers was asked to play that role. That’s gotta be the connection in my weirdly-wired mind.
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Thought of this very thread as I heard the news on the drive home.
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Oh that’s too bad. /s
ETA:
On his Facebook page Spradlin shared a misleading meme attempting to minimize COVID-19
I wonder whom he shared COVID-19 with.
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Probably his family, his entire congregation…and everyone they’ve come into contact with since.
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Class act.
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I wonder how Linda Tripp would be viewed today. I do think she was right that Bill was a total lech. I think her motives were really mixed and people responded to that. She’s not the only person who tried to blow the whistle on Bill Clinton. He’s gotten away with as least as much as Trump.
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Tripp violated Maryland wire-tapping laws (both people must know), but got away with it.
Trump is about ten orders of magnitude more evil than Clinton, if you ask me. And a hell of a lot dumber. I’d much prefer Clinton to handle this virus problem, for example.
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