Teaching Literature Is Impossible; That Is Why

Separatism Is A Very Healthy Movement Within Culture. It's A Disastrous Movement Within Politics And Economics.

The Ups And Downs Of This Cosmos May Sometimes Be Acknowledged To Be Metaphorical Ups And Downs, But Until About Newton's Time Most People Took The "up" Of Heaven And The "down" Of Hell To Be More Or Less Descriptive.

Literature Is A Human Apocalypse, Man's Revelation To Man, And Criticism Is Not A Body Of Adjudications, But The Awareness Of That Revelation, The Last Judgement Of Mankind.

Every Human Society Possesses A Mythology Which Is Inherited, Transmitted And Diversified By Literature.

It Is Clear That All Verbal Structures With Meaning Are Verbal Imitations Of That Elusive Psychological And Physiological Process Known As Thought, A Process Stumbling Through Emotional Entanglements, Sudden Irrational Convictions, Involuntary Gleams Of Insight, Rationalized Prejudices, And Blocks Of Panic And Inertia, Finally To Reach A Completely Incommunicable Intuition.