https://abner.page/tags/culture/ Recent content in culture on Abner Hugo -- gohugo.io en Copyright © 2008–2025, Abner Coimbre; all rights reserved. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/ A human wrote this essay. Proof of work. Harold Bloom was a professor at Yale University and a famous author and literary critic: think Roger Ebert but for books. Many considered him a prick and colleagues often bristled at him. This grumpy professor’s in my noggin lately, because I happen to participate in an online community, Lobsters, which I find is bursting at the seams with Harold Blooms. (Except we’re software engineers, not generally book authors.