Harold Bloom on the Internet
Jesse Pearson recently interviewed our most infamous professor of college English in Vice. In the interview Bloom identified the internet as having the potential to both enhance and degrade one’s reading experience:
If, in fact, you have an impulse to become and maintain yourself as a deep reader, then the internet is very good for you. It gives you an endless resource. But if, in fact, you don’t have standards and you don’t know how to read, then the internet is a disaster for you because it’s a great gray ocean of text in which you simply drown.
Such simply put statements are what has left Bloom’s supporters and detractors hanging on to his every utterance for nearly half a century.
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