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All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place . . .

Source: Against The Grain, ch. 10, The Critic as Clown (1986).
-- Terry Eagleton, (Feb 22 1943-____), British literary critic; He is known as a literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual.


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