Re: Harold Bloom on Harry Potter

["Jose G. Perez" <jg_perez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesus!

What an intolerably priggish snob.

The man's a bloody owl.

Someone get him a laxative before he explodes.

José
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Grinker" <grinker@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:07 AM
Subject: Harold Bloom on Harry Potter


Wall Street Journal - July 11, 2000

Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes.

By Harold Bloom, a professor at Yale. His most recent book is "How to
Read and Why" (Scribner, 2000).

Taking arms against Harry Potter, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet
taking arms against a sea of troubles. By opposing the sea, you won't
end it. The Harry Potter epiphenomenon will go on, doubtless for some
time, as J.R.R. Tolkien did, and then wane.