To be a bandit is better than to be a slave! - Samuel R. Delany

Content, of course, must have some form. And form, of course, creates its content/commentary. This is why their chimeras have chased each other through moment after moment of history, the intense perception of one or the other producing the overwhelming effect: Art.

It's a map of a non-existent coast under an imaginary constellation on an impossible sky in—" he grunted, twisting something—"the middle of a ring of meaningless numbers. That's why it's powerful. That's why it's magic.

The deconstructionists have led off this set of new readings most energetically by asking of certain texts: “What do they have to say that specifically undermines and subverts their own ideological array?” As energetic as the deconstructionist foray has been, we must remember that there are still going to be many texts for which we can expect the answer: “Not much.”