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that most embarrassing of statistical fictions, the commercial reader (not you, of course; not me), who presumably consumes texts only for story, is assumed to stand deaf to style, and is thought to applaud only the endlessly repeated pornographies of action and passion that, for all their violences, still manage to pander to an astonishingly untroubled acceptance of the personal and political status quo.
‘Literature is always an impatience on the part of knowledge.’
(We are never out of metaphysics, even when we think we are critiquing someone else’s.)
