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“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”
― Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess
― Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess
“Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.”
― Sexual Personae
― Sexual Personae
“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”
― Break, Blow, Burn
― Break, Blow, Burn
“Enough already of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault poured like ketchup over everything. Lacan: the French fog machine; a grey-flannel worry-bone for toothless academic pups; a twerpy, cape-twirling Dracula dragging his flocking stooges to the crypt. Lacan is a Freud T-shirt shrunk down to the teeny-weeny Saussure torso. The entire school of Saussure, inluding Levi-Strauss, write their muffled prose of people with cotton wool wrapped around their heads; they're like walking Q-tips. Derrida: a Gloomy Gus one-trick pony, stuck on a rhetorical trope already available in the varied armory of New Criticism. Derrida's method: masturbating without pleasure. It's a birdbrain game for birdseed stakes. Neo-Foucaldian New Historicism: a high-wax bowling alley where you score points just by knockng down the pins.”
― Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
― Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
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