Just when I'm getting used to the idea that I'm not as smart as I think I am, I learn from Harold Bloom's Hamlet: Poem Unlimited<\/a> that I'm also less intelligent than a fictional character: <\/p>\n

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• \"Vastly intelligent, far beyond us--if we are not, say, Freud or Wittgenstein--Hamlet cannot believe that the proper use of his capability and godlike reason is to perform a revenge killing.\" (p. 70)<\/li>\n
• \"Don't condescend to the Prince of Denmark: he is more intelligent than you are, whoever you are.\" (p. 86)<\/li>\n
• \"If Hamlet perishes of the truth, such truth is barely external. Hamlet is<\/i> the truth, insofar as any hero of consciousness can be.\" (p. 94)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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