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"If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades."
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Terry Eagleton"Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures."
Terence Francis Eagleton is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of English Literature at Lancaster University.
"If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades."
"Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism."
"Deconstruction... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."
"All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is pointing towards some object."
"The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present."
"It is silly to call fat people “gravitationally challenged”, a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration."