Evil May Be 'unscientific' But So Is

Like All The Best Radical Positions, Then, Mine Is A Thoroughly Traditionalist One.

All Communication Involves Faith; Indeed, Some Linguisticians Hold That The Potential Obstacles To Acts Of Verbal Understanding Are So Many And Diverse That It Is A Minor Miracle That They Take Place At All.

Poetry Is The Most Subtle Of The Literary Arts, And Students Grow More Ingenious By The Year At Avoiding It. If They Can Nip Around Milton, Duck Under Blake And Collapse Gratefully Into The Arms Of Jane Austen, A Lot Of Them Will.

It Is Silly To Call Fat People "gravitationally Challenged", A Self-righteous Fetishism Of Language Which Is No More Than A Symptom Of Political Frustration.

Readers Are Less And Less Seen As Mere Non-writers, The Subhuman "other" Or Flawed Derivative Of The Author; The Lack Of A Pen Is No Longer A Shameful Mark Of Secondary Status But A Positively Enabling Space, Just As Within Every Writer Can Be Seen To Lurk, As A Repressed But Contaminating Antithesis, A Reader.