Bloom works the other way, reading forwards from the absolute primacy of Shakespeare, and asserting again and again that we cannot escape from him, that he assimilates us, not the other way around, that he reads us.
They're assimilating us into their culture.
No, they're assimilating us into their culture".
In a lecture to a group of law students shortly before the decision was released, Harlan commented that the Chinese had long been excluded from American society "upon the idea that this is a race utterly foreign to us and never will assimilate with us".
No wonder some commentators are concerned by what they see as the relative failure of Latinos to assimilate into US society.
Harold Bloom, in "The Western Canon," described the culture's seminal books as possessing "strangeness, a mode of originality that either cannot be assimilated, or that so assimilates us that we cease to see it as strange".
These are always better in bulk than in detail -- not in his readings of particular works but rather in his general emphasis on the "strangeness" of great writers, an "originality that either cannot be assimilated, or that so assimilates us that we cease to see it as strange".
The amazing thing about American Muslims is how well they have been assimilated into US culture.
