Reading A Text Is More Like Tracing

You've Got To Have A Sense Of Different Audiences. I'm A Kind Of Performer Manque - I Come From A Long Line Of Failed Actors!

To Claim That Science And Religion Pose Different Questions To The World Is Not To Suggest That If The Bones Of Jesus Were Discovered In Palestine, The Pope Should Get Himself Down To The Dole Queue As Fast As Possible. It Is Rather To Claim That While Faith, Rather Like Love, Must Involve Factual Knowledge, It Is Not Reducible To It.

Evil Is Unintelligible. It Is Just A Thing In Itself, Like Boarding A Crowded Commuter Train Wearing Only A Giant Boa Constrictor. There Is No Context Which Would Make It Explicable.

Language, Identity And Forms Of Life Are The Terms In Which Political Demands Are Shaped And Voiced.

Literature Transforms And Intensifies Ordinary Language, Deviates Systematically From Everyday Speech.