Quotes by Lehman, David

There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihila >>

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly >>

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having >>

Quotations about Obscurity

Obscurity brings safety. >>

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters p >>

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor >>

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity -- a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

Lehman, David