The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance
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alkyon
1 hour ago
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Bloom was a rare exception to Lem's law: nobody reads anything and even if they read they don't understand, and even if they understand they immediately forget
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general_reveal
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“This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’”

— Matthew 13:13 (NIV)

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