Ordmor · @Ordmor
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Jumbo · @jumbo
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commissioned to do a biography of ?! I can hardly imagine anyone less well qualified. On other hand, literary critic and Shakespeare expert, the late ' s great work 'Anxiety of Influence' might have been about but applies just as well to 2nd-rate Tory politicians doing tribute acts.

Anything but politics, seem to be the focus of Johnson's entire political career. Explains how he managed to spaff an 80-seat majority - Our good luck.

#churchill #poets #romantic #haroldbloom #shakespeare #johnson

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noself · @noself
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"He hears Salamano's plaintive cry, "like a flower growing out of the silence and darkness"; somehow this bleak cry is seen as something fragrant and positive. Out of the negative, something good is still possible, a key idea that will inform the novel's conclusion and is heralded as well at the end of chapter four." (Harold Bloom, Albert Camus's the Stranger (Bloom's Guides))


#thestranger #haroldbloom #camus #absurdism

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