“We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.” IfsHumansDoeRealUseProblemUsedCultureLiteratureKnownMoralRichPossibilityProductsUltimateSolveResistanceInterpretationRefusalExhilaratingDisserviceManifold Book:The Use and Abuse of Literature Source: The Use and Abuse of Literature
“Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.” ThinkingWayKindHas BeensUseNamesTermComputerUniqueMarkComplicatedOperationsSequenceJargonMacro Book:Academic Instincts Source: Academic Instincts
