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The Text Is Merely One Of The Contexts Of A Piece Of Literature, Its Lexical Or Verbal One, No More Or Less Important Than The Sociological, Psychological, Historical, Anthropological Or Generic.

There Are Things In American Culture That Want To Wipe The Class Distinction. Blue Jeans. Ready-made Clothes. Coca-cola.

I Have, I Admit, A Low Tolerance For Detached Chronicling And Cool Analysis.

To Be An American (unlike Being English Or French Or Whatever) Is Precisely To Imagine A Destiny Rather Than To Inherit One; Since We Have Always Been, Insofar As We Are Americans At All, Inhabitants Of Myth Rather Than History.

When Somebody Asks Me What I Do, I Don't Think I'd Say Critic. I Say Writer.