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Turns out that Harold Bloom\u2019s \u201canxiety of influence\u201d is just another variation on the same set of themes that Derrida is obsessed with \u2014 the son\u2019s murder of the father. For Bloom, the son is the \u201cstrong poet\u201d who resists the influence of his predecessor\/father in order to carve out space for his own work. 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