You've Got To Have A Sense Of

If It Is True That We Need A Degree Of Certainty To Get By, It Is Also True That Too Much Of The Stuff Can Be Lethal.

What Persuades Men And Women To Mistake Each Other From Time To Time For Gods Or Vermin Is Ideology. One Can Understand Well Enough How Human Beings May Struggle And Murder For Good Material Reasons - Reasons Connected, For Instance, With Their Physical Survival. It Is Much Harder To Grasp How They May Come To Do So In The Name Of Something As Apparently Abstract As Ideas. Yet Ideas Are What Men And Women Live By, And Will Occasionally Die For.

Deconstruction Insists Not That Truth Is Illusory But That It Is Institutional.

In The Deep Night Of Metaphysics, All Cats Look Black.

Like The Rest Of Us, Tom Paulin Is A Bundle Of Contradictions. At Its Finest, His Work Is Brave, Adventurous, Original And Wonderfully Idiosyncratic.