To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
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Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.
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[The Jets' downfall started with injuries to Pennington and Fiedler in the third game and snowballed from there.] Your trigger man is your trigger man, ... When you lose guys like that, it's tough to function.
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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).
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