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2016-05-15 14:43:28 Post No. 8040580
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Anonymous 2016-05-15 14:43:28 Post No. 8040580 [Report]

>We confront a crisis in scale when contemporary works are unable to sustain their ambitions. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is such a work. When I read it in 1996, it had been many years since a young novelist had dared to invest such commitment. Sadly, it did not come off. The result was rather akin to a large penis, impressive at first sight but too big for the blood to create a fully functional erection. Wallace's novel never got more than semistiff.

What's he saying here?

Anonymous 2016-05-15 14:46:49 Post No.8040592
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Anonymous 2016-05-15 14:46:49 Post No.8040592 [Report]

>>8040580
>The result was rather akin to a large penis, impressive at first sight but too big for the blood to create a fully functional erection.

now, he is truly lewd

Anonymous 2016-05-15 14:49:40 Post No.8040599
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>>8040580
>The result was rather akin to a large penis, impressive at first sight but too big for the blood to create a fully functional erection. Wallace's novel never got more than semistiff.

I don't think I can believe he wrote that.

Anonymous 2016-05-15 15:12:08 Post No.8040654
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Anonymous 2016-05-15 15:12:08 Post No.8040654 [Report]

>>8040592
>>8040599
Apparently this is a mashup from something Bloom actually says in the book and a different quote from the novel My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Wonder what Bloom thinks of Knausgaard.

Anonymous 2016-05-15 15:27:55 Post No.8040695
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>>8040654

Anonymous 2016-05-15 15:44:50 Post No.8040728
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>>8040695
Just letting people know where the quote is from, in case they liked it and want to read the book.

Anonymous 2016-05-15 15:48:54 Post No.8040741
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Anonymous 2016-05-15 15:48:54 Post No.8040741 [Report]

I was really disappointed with TDK. Didn't really find out anything new or interesting.

Anonymous 2016-05-15 15:54:48 Post No.8040751
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>He knows.

Anonymous 2016-05-15 16:38:52 Post No.8040892
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>>8040741
TDKR comes out later this year, maybe it'll be better.

Anonymous 2016-05-15 16:59:17 Post No.8040960
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He's a big guy.

Anonymous 2016-05-15 17:37:45 Post No.8041055
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Anonymous 2016-05-15 17:37:45 Post No.8041055 [Report]

>>8040960
For a jew

Anonymous 2016-05-15 17:53:14 Post No.8041107
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Anonymous 2016-05-15 17:53:14 Post No.8041107 [Report]

>>8041055
I love the Jews, they are Israel, are they not? The people of Israel whose origins and history we read about in the Hebrew Scriptures? Then I love these people, for they are beloved of God. If however they go a-whoring after the Satan, then they are foolishy and silly peoples. But they are Jews. And that, is that.

Anonymous 2016-05-15 23:44:36 Post No.8042571
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Anonymous 2016-05-15 23:44:36 Post No.8042571 [Report]

on the topic of harold bloom, i'm interested in his thoughts on religion and am wondering if anyone has recs for other writers that share a similar direction as far as how they think of christianity

Anonymous 2016-05-16 08:17:37 Post No.8044467
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Anonymous 2016-05-16 08:17:37 Post No.8044467 [Report]

>>8042571
How does he think of Christianity?