In their effort to divorce language and experience deconstructionist critics remind me of middleclass parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.
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For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
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The ambition of much of todays literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
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