Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 61
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 58
Source: When Corporations Rule the World (1995,2015), p. 20
quoted by Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times, Saturday, October 7, 2006
Source: Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.”
New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine #124
Did Eve really have an Extra Rib?: And other tough questions about the Bible (2002)
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 1 “A Parade in Ehrenrang” (p. 18)
“A work has two levels of meaning: literal and concealed.”
Proposition 3
Variant translation: The Text can be approached, experienced, in reaction to the sign. The work closes on a signified. There are two modes of signification which can be attributed to this signified: either it is claimed to be evident and the work is then the object of a literal science, of philology, or else it is considered to be secret, ultimate, something to be sought out, and the work then falls under the scope of a hermeneutics, of an interpretation
From Work to Text (1971)
Context: A work has two levels of meaning: literal and concealed.
A Text, on the other hand is engaged in a movement … a deferral … a dilation of meaning … the play of signification.
Metonymy — the association of part to whole — characterized the logic of the Text.
In this sense the Text is "radically symbolic" and lacks closure.
