 is a certain amount
of "sublime oedipal pleasure" (SOP) in that, I guess! -- right up until I got
around to making the "textual experiment" of reading 1 or 2 or 3 samples of
these actual texts themselves, and I discovered that my teachers had, well --
who can blame them? -- they were only following orders, only repeating what
they had been taught, probably had never personally read any more than a few
mutilated excerpts of these books that they so ardently knew they must burn.

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