2010-09-18

The subversion of meaning

"If all plots somehow tell the story of their own marring, then perhaps it could be said that all plots are plots against authority, that authority creates the scene of its own destruction, that all stories necessarily recount by their very existence the subversion of the father, of the gods, of consciousness, of order, of expectations, or of meaning."

Barbara Johnson i Melville's Fist: The Execution of Billy Budd

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