Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.
Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.
Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.