Nice timing from Alan Jacobs on “the specificity of your enchantment” for a couple reasons:
- I just got Reynolds Price’s Three Gospels in the mail not three weeks ago.
- I read a fitting line in William T. Cavanaugh’s Being Consumed just tonight: “Postmodernism also trumpets the vacuity of signs, such that the signifier refers only to other signifiers, not to the signified.”
I have to admit, though, that I have mixed feelings…