If There Are Indeed Any Iron Laws

It Is Language Which Speaks In Literature, In All Its Swarming 'polysemic' Plurality, Not The Author Himself.

The Role Of The Intellectual, So It Is Said, Is To Speak Truth To Power. Noam Chomsky Has Dismissed This Pious Tag On Two Grounds. For One Thing, Power Knows The Truth Already; It Is Just Busy Trying To Conceal It. For Another, It Is Not Those In Power Who Need The Truth, But Those They Oppress.

Dawkins Considers That All Faith Is Blind Faith, And That Christian And Muslim Children Are Brought Up To Believe Unquestioningly. Not Even The Dim-witted Clerics Who Knocked Me About At Grammar School Thought That.

After All, If You Do Not Resist The Apparently Inevitable, You Will Never Know How Inevitable The Inevitable Was.

It Is Difficult To Think Of An Origin Without Wanting To Go Back Beyond It.