| Simultaneity |
[Mar. 2nd, 2004|04:10 pm] |
In the introduction to the new translation of Don Quixote I was talking about a couple of entries back, Harold Bloom observes:
Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died almost simultaneously, are the central western authors, at least since Dante, and no writer since has matched them, not Tolstoy or Goethe, Dickens, Proust, Joyce.
I was struck by Bloom's use of the word simultaneously, and I imagined the dying Shakespeare and Cervantes lying in their respective beds, with observers standing by, chronometers in hand, ready to record their expiration dates to three significant figures.
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