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I must say these Oxfordians are very virulent and, forgive me for saying it, very crazy people indeed.

— Harold Bloom

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Source: Interview with In Depth for CSPAN2 (May 3, 2003), quoted in Katherine Chiljan, 'Bloom Blooper', The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2003), p. 8
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