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Harold Bloom

“The tragic sense of life in Don Quixote is also the faith of Moby Dick. Ahab is a monomaniac; so is the kindlier Quixote, but both are tormented idealists who seek justice in human terms, not as theocentric men but as ungodly, godlike men.”

Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom
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