The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.
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