Dr. Bloom periodically issues from his grotto at the end of a dim hallway in the boys' dorm and goes over to the Humanities Building to inflict literature on the long-suffering students of ASMS. His teaching style is dramatic, if not overly coherent, so that he sometimes makes it interesting to at least some of the students who fall into his clutches. He is frequently not found in his grotto, especially in the afternoon, owing to commitments to his surprisingly young family, who, like his students, have far more activities than they have time (or their parents money) for. In his spare time, when he finds some, he writes this and that and sings in his church choir. He also loves to act, and began the drama program at the school al most four years ago. This year (1998-9) he has turned over the program to others in order to concentrate on his literature electives, and incidentally to restore his shattered nerves, sacrificed in bringing Crimes of the Heart, The Foreigner , Trial by Jury, HMS Pinafore and several original plays to the stage - and in getting a stage to bring them to. But you never can tell. The roar of the greasepaint may drag him back to the footlights, or would if the lighting system had any .