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In Our Day The Conventional Element In Literature Is Elaborately Disguised By A Law Of Copyright Pretending That Every Work Of Art Is An Invention Distinctive Enough To Be Patented.

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The Twentieth Century Saw An Amazing Development Of Scholarship And Criticism In The Humanities, Carried Out By People Who Were More Intelligent, Better Trained, Had More Languages, Had A Better Sense Of Proportion, And Were Infinitely More Accurate Scholars And Competent Professional Men Than I. I Had Genius. No One Else In The Field Known To Me Had Quite That.

The First Thing That Confronts Us In Studying Verbal Structures Is That They Are Arranged Sequentially, And Have To Be Read Or Listened To In Time.

Literature Is Not A Subject Of Study, But An Object Of Study.