With Foucault, Goldhill assumes that “the desiring subject” (p. 45) is male; in his learned disquisition on the importance of the act of reading (p. 45), Goldhill never addresses the gender of the reader, that curious creature who is at once the target of the text and its reanimator—or animatrix.

The costs of all the parts added up to five times the cost of the car.

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He was a great goaltender but a poor puckhandler.