Literature Transforms And Intensifies Ordinary Language, Deviates

Ivory Towers Are As Rare As Bowling Alleys In Tribal Cultures.

The Role Of The Intellectual, So It Is Said, Is To Speak Truth To Power. Noam Chomsky Has Dismissed This Pious Tag On Two Grounds. For One Thing, Power Knows The Truth Already; It Is Just Busy Trying To Conceal It. For Another, It Is Not Those In Power Who Need The Truth, But Those They Oppress.

Capitalism Will Behave Antisocially If It Is Profitable For It To Do So, And That Can Now Mean Human Devastation On An Unimaginable Scale. What Used To Be Apocalyptic Fantasy Is Today No More Than Sober Realism.

Any Attempt To Define Literary Theory In Terms Of A Distinctive Method Is Doomed To Failure.

I Enjoy Popularisation And I Think I'm Reasonably Good At It. I Also Think It's A Duty. It's Just So Pedagogically Stupid To Forget How Difficult One Found These Ideas Oneself To Begin With.