“All texts are incarnational, and the climax of the entire Christian Bible, "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us," is the most logocentric sentence ever written.”

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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