- INTERVIEWER:
- What direction do you see the form taking?
- BLOOM:
- I would suppose that in America we are leaning more and more towards terrible millennial visions. I would even expect a religious dimension, a satiric dimension, an even more apocalyptic dimension than we have been accustomed to. I would expect the mode of fantasy to develop new permutations.
- (From an interview by Antonio Weiss, published in The Paris Review, Issue #118, Spring 1991.) (I admit, I may just be seeing it because that's my track of thinking these days, but I think considering "the end" leads to serious imaginative possibilities and questions.
Beginning. Middle. End.
Per lor maledizion sì non si perde,
Che non possa tornar l’ eterno amore,
Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde.
- Purgatorio, III
Che non possa tornar l’ eterno amore,
Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde.
- Purgatorio, III
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