When Comedy Fails, Seriousness Begins To Leak

Modern Discussions Of The Possibility Of Tragedy Are Not Exercises In Literary Analysis; They Are Exercises In Cultural Diagnostics, More Or Less Disguised.

One Cannot Use The Life To Interpret The Work. But One Can Use The Work To Interpret The Life.

That's What A Community Is: Taking For Granted Certain Assumptions, Not Having To Start From Zero Every Time. This Is No Longer True.

Pornography Is A Theatre Of Types, Never Of Individuals.

Victims Suggest Innocence. And Innocence, By The Inexorable Logic That Governs All Relational Terms, Suggests Guilt.