It is hard to follow the kinks of woman suffrage ratiocination.

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.

I am very uneasy to think how I have been drawn on one hand, and driven on the other, into a clandestine, in short, into a more lover-like correspondence, which my heart condemns.

I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.