Cynicism And Naivety Lie Cheek By Jowl

It Is Difficult To Think Of An Origin Without Wanting To Go Back Beyond It.

Reading Is Not A Straightforward Linear Movement, A Merely Cumulative Affair: Our Initial Speculations Generate A Frame Of Reference Within Which To Interpret What Comes Next, But What Comes Next May Retrospectively Transform Our Original Understanding, Highlighting Some Features Of It And Backgrounding Others.

It Is Easy To See Why A Diversity Of Cultures Should Confront Power With A Problem. If Culture Is About Plurality, Power Is About Unity. How Can It Sell Itself Simultaneously To A Whole Range Of Life Forms Without Being Fatally Diluted?

It Is Language Which Speaks In Literature, In All Its Swarming 'polysemic' Plurality, Not The Author Himself.

I Enjoy Popularisation And I Think I'm Reasonably Good At It. I Also Think It's A Duty. It's Just So Pedagogically Stupid To Forget How Difficult One Found These Ideas Oneself To Begin With.