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Two Observations
1. I'd only heard of Harold Bloom because of the Naomi Wolf accusation (which I've long been inclined to believe) and wasn't entirely sure what to make of him. Reading The Anxiety of Influence, however, I'm left with the impression that he's basically a wanker. For a start there's the random appropriation of classical concepts as ill-fitting metaphors with little or poorly explained understanding of what those terms imply outside of their usage in his book, and on top of that there's the idea that Shakespeare was a great flourishing of originality that burst out of nowhere, except maybe Marlowe and the Pre-Socratics - ??? I completely understand the need to study English lit. without constantly going 'ooh, Classics', but using Classics badly is just insulting.
2. For the purposes of fic-soundtracking (oh, not too time-consuming procrastination, how I love you) I've found myself trying to work out which song I own is the most representative of Euripides' Medea. I have settled on the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Man, and am rather well satisfied by the choice.
And, to make this a Spanish Inquisition 'two', 3. It's snowing again. Or possibly sleeting, but heavily in any case (though the whatever-precipitation-it-is is quite fine).
2. For the purposes of fic-soundtracking (oh, not too time-consuming procrastination, how I love you) I've found myself trying to work out which song I own is the most representative of Euripides' Medea. I have settled on the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Man, and am rather well satisfied by the choice.
And, to make this a Spanish Inquisition 'two', 3. It's snowing again. Or possibly sleeting, but heavily in any case (though the whatever-precipitation-it-is is quite fine).