I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.