What Is A Mazeppist? (Part Seven)

He who laughs last...

This is a recent photo of the Romantic-
Pluralist critic M. H. Abrams. In the essay "The Deconstructive Angel" (1977), Abrams penned what I consider to be the finest single sentence on Derrida: "For Derrida's chamber of texts is a sealed echo-chamber in which meanings are reduced to a ceaseless echolalia, a vertical and lateral reverberation from sign to sign of ghostly nonpresences emanating from no voice, intended by no one, referring to nothing, bombinating in a void."