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[Harold] Bloom is famous for his memory and his reading speed. He has
memorized a large proportion of canonical poetry written in English;
once, when drunk, as an undergraduate at Cornell, he recited Hart
Crane's long poem "The Bridge" backward, word by word. He claims that
in his youth he read a thousand pages an hour.

"The Prophet of Decline," by Larissa Maqfarquhar,
		   <cite>The New Yorker</cite>, September 30, 2002, p. 87.

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