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“For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.”
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“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?
—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“What would you do if you ruled the world?” The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: “Even grammar?”
― The Seventh Function of Language
― The Seventh Function of Language
“Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you!”
― The 7th Function of Language
― The 7th Function of Language
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.”
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