"Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless"

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Source : Jonathan Culler (2014). “On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism”, p.99, Cornell University Press

Jonathan Culler

“When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.”
“I'm just really a lazy homebody.”
“Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.”
“Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.”
“Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!”
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”
“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”

Source : Leslie Stephen (1893). “An Agnostic's Apology”
“gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.”

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