The Simple Point Is That Literature Belongs

War Appeals To Young Men Because It Is Fundamentally Auto-eroticism.

Metaphors Of Unity And Integration Take Us Only So Far, Because They Are Derived From The Finiteness Of The Human Mind.

Literally, The Bible Is A Gigantic Myth, A Narrative Extending Over The Whole Of Time From Creation To Apocalypse, Unified By A Body Of Recurring Imagery That "freezes" Into A Single Metaphor Cluster, The Metaphors All Being Identified With The Body Of The Messiah, The Man Who Is All Men, The Totality Logoi Who Is One Logos, The Grain Of Sand That Is The World.

We Are Being Swallowed Up By The Popular Culture Of The United States, But Then The Americans Are Being Swallowed Up By It Too. It's Just As Much A Threat To American Culture As It Is To Ours.

The Twentieth Century Saw An Amazing Development Of Scholarship And Criticism In The Humanities, Carried Out By People Who Were More Intelligent, Better Trained, Had More Languages, Had A Better Sense Of Proportion, And Were Infinitely More Accurate Scholars And Competent Professional Men Than I. I Had Genius. No One Else In The Field Known To Me Had Quite That.