Just because X doesn't necessarily mean Y.

Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle couple of hundred or more pages of it, and then you can just put your usual, normal, real people's, non-hipster, pompless, friendly-neighborhood, genuinely readable, unpretentious, happybrow, fun, top-entertainment books inside it, so that people think you're ultra-hip and highbrow and can actually make sense of that wacko shit.

I own an indie bookshop, if I tried to tell customers that their view of a book was wrong I wouldn't even be able to pay the rent!

Blah blah blah deconstruction blah blah blah.

Kant kan't right.

The only ingenuity I can see is Gaddis’ wherewithal in getting this brick published, printed, and hyped-up enough to win the National Book Award. Did he use coercion, bribery, blackmail perhaps? Did he have incriminating evidence on certain influential literary critics and talking heads, like pictures of them with farm animals or something?

Some books have too much tennis.Some books have too much baseball.Some books have too much boxing.Some books have too much horse.

inherent :: late 16th century: from Latin inhaerent- ‘sticking to,’ from the verb inhaerere, from in- ‘in, toward’ + haerere ‘to stick.’"Is there a way to scrape it off that does not involve joining a monastery?

That's not me, Honey. That's evolution!

Freud was not entirely honest with himself when he said, “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise".