A Bloomian Whimsy
Professor Bloom is back from
the dead, the Promethean critic who
did not believe in life after death,
his last kick at the can, a posthumous
book that does its best to prove the
savior Jesus wrong, and all the prophets
of redemption—Take Arms Against
a Sea of Troubles: The Power of
the Reader’s Mind Over a Universe
of Death—a man possessed by the
spirit of nihilism that refused to set
him free from an incomparable genius
“edged by nothingness,”a man whose
Faustian longing for more life always
moved me to tears, but hearing his
voice once more from his place over
there, I despaired the ironic echo
of his hero Hamlet’s last words, “The
rest is silence,” a Bloomian whimsy
much too tragic for tears.
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