The spirit of commentation, as has already been suggested, turns to questions of taste, of metaphysics, of morals, with far more avidity to physics.

The sounding of the alarm was the signal to begin the emergency blow maneuver. At this time, witnesses reported, the guest at the high-pressure air controls operated the levers under close supervision of Navy personnel, and the submarine started to rise at a sharp angle.

The schizocartographies highlighted here operate against the grain, counter to the well-trodden urban path, while at the same time recognizing the dominant structure for what it is, what it does and what it represents.

Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or deplored by many, championed with narrow, even arrogant zeal by some, misabsorbed by nearly everyone after a while.