Today at the Harold B. Pricklepants Society, we finished the "Democratic Age" of literature with a chapter on Ibsen, Peer Gynt, and Trolls. Looking ahead into the "Chaotic Age," we discovered our next chapter would be on Freud, followed by Joyce and Proust, among a few others. I know for a fact that these people are strange (you have to be to get into Bloom's Canon), bordering on creepy and gross. Not appealing reading for my taste. Besides Bloom has proven himself to be contrary, intent on ruffling every feather I'm sure, and I am sick of him! I'm not in the mood for chaos. I like organization.
Thankfully the members of the HBPS have decided to take a break from Bloom (let him collect dust for a while, as Elizabeth put it) and read some canonical literature.
Over the next few weeks we will delve into C.S. Lewis's "Abolition of Man," followed by "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
Great idea! Hmmm... now where did I put that...
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