The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance

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• alkyon 1 hour ago
  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 58 minutes ago
    “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)