In that caesura so much richness lies

the technologies mediating our discourse were outstripping our discourse's ability to define those changes or formulate satisfactorily the terms with which to consider and debate their implications

the truly liminal and dangerously vulnerable interplay of body, matter, self, other, and society which the creation of meaning through speech represents

a whole new generation who cannot remember alternatives to "marketplace" meretriciousness is coming to fruition, and that, surely, has an effect on how younger people view what Art (and people) are

being a novelist, even one whose name was o the lips of every literary saloniste and cocktail party-goer, no ticket to dignity and no anodyne to status anxiety

He ekes out a precarious living as an editor at a vanity press, a man of all work at the impecunious Little Magazine

an infinitely and perplexingly ascending trajectory towards an empyrean of extraliterary fame

the unaccountable success of his quondam best friend

This whole farrago stopped the British literary-industrial complex in its tracks for weeks

a time, of course, in a great swivet over conformity, inauthenticity, and sterility