The postmodernist deconstructor wishes then to show how a previously trusted relationship, like this one between language and the world, will go astray. ‘Look’ we say, ‘it’s just a systematically misleading metaphor about a masque.’ However, it is logically obvious that you can’t demonstrate how language always ‘goes astray’ without at the same time having a secret and contradictory trust in it. For without a pretty confident notion of the truth, how can we show that any particular stretch of language has ‘gone astray’ or fallen into contradiction? This is a crippling mystery to those hostile
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