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Berkeley Breathed could feel left out - and one of his collections was named "Classics of Western Literature".



He should. His work has political and cultural significance, and only that: no literary value. I say that as someone who put too much time into reading Bloom County when I was younger.


> literary value

Not everyone has to be Joyce - there is literary value in more humble works and intentions, and Breathed's Bloom County was sublime in its preposterous ideas. Not perfect, not an Everest - a "local maximum", relatively a peak, if dwarfed by other works in more specialized, high-brow efforts.


Nobel Prizes leave lots of people feeling left out.




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