The truly literate person knows thousands of words, often in several different languages, and has absorbed from listening and reading and seeing (for example, on TV) a whole brainful of thoughts and facts that he can recall and think about.

You shitposters, take some advice: either you start to post something worth reading, or optionally get the hell out of here, hunt down James and tell him personally Metallica sucks, ok?

Not only is it a switch to allegory in a realistic novel, not only does it misproclaim its own message, it is not even really a murder!

to fire the genius of a young man