Literary Critic Harold Bloom Says That Both He and Famous Writers are Possessed by Daemons, an Obsolete Theory for Multiple Personality

In a review of Harold Bloom’s The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Cynthia Ozick in tomorrow’s New York Times Book Review, Professor Bloom is quoted as saying the following:

“The obscure being I could call Bloom’s daemon has known how it is done, and I have not. His true name (has he one?) I cannot discover, but I am grateful to him for teaching the classes, writing the books, enduring the mishaps and illnesses, and nurturing the fictions of continuity that sustain my 85th year.”