Today, Nostalgia Is Almost As Unacceptable As

Theology, However Implausible Many Of Its Truth Claims, Is One Of The Most Ambitious Theoretical Arenas Left In An Increasingly Specialized World

Reading A Text Is More Like Tracing This Process Of Constant Flickering Than It Is Like Counting The Beads On A Necklace.

With Fiction, You Can Talk About Plot, Character And Narrative, Whereas A Poem Brings Home The Fact That Everything That Happens In A Work Of Literature Happens In Terms Of Language. And This Is Daunting Stuff To Deal With.

People Do Evil Things Because They Are Evil. Some People Are Evil In The Way That Some Things Are Coloured Indigo. They Commit Their Evil Deeds Not To Achieve Some Goal, But Just Because Of The Sort Of People They Are.

It Is Capitalism, Not Marxism, That Trades In Futures.