read service ideology read all. mind’s dialogue primarily a social rea — Harold Bloom, Western Canon: Books School Ages

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To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

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

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