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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.

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

The Most Compelling Confirmation Of Marx's Theory Of History Is Late Capitalist Society. There Is A Sense In Which This Case Is Becoming Truer As Time Passes.

Virtue Is Something You Have To Get Good At, Like Playing The Trombone Or Tolerating Bores At Parties. Being A Virtuous Human Being Takes Practice; And Those Who Are Brilliant At Being Human (what Christians Call The Saints) Are The Virtuosi Of The Moral Sphere - The Pavarottis And Maradonas Of Virtue.

The Frontier Between Public And Private Shifts From Time To Time And Culture To Culture.