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Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space . . .

Source: Against The Grain, ch. 13, The Revolt of the Reader (1986; first published 1982).
-- Terry Eagleton, (Feb 22 1943-____), British literary critic; He is known as a literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual.

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