Words

[Dave Monroe]

"'I would like to find out,' she presently plunged,
'something about the historical Wharfinger.  Not so
much the verbal one.'
   "'The historical Shakespeare,' growled one of the
grad students through a full beard, uncapping anothr
bottle.  'The historical Marx.  The historical Jesus.'
   "'He's right,' shrugged Bortz, 'they're dead. 
What's left?'
   "'Words.'
   "'Pick some words,' said Bortz.  'Them, we can talk
about.'"  (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 151)

Tres poststructuraliste, non?  Discourse as our only
access to the real, history as historiography, always
already written?  But also, more likely, more
immediately, quite New Critical as well, that
eschewing of, disdain for, historical context,
authorial biography ...




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