Walter Pater's Renaissance By Christopher Warley Dated scholarship can obscure more than it describes a period like the Renaissance. Can such studies be productively read today?
Ghostlier demarcations By William Flesch A book that furnishes no quotations is no book—it is a plaything. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. How frequently the mere purchase of a book is mistaken for the appropriation of its contents.
Adjustments and juxtapositions By William Flesch There is adjustment between the animal and its food, its parasite, its enemy. Balances are kept. --Emerson, Fate