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	I simply don't understand most of your reply, Matt.  Partly from 
	a dullness of wit, but rather more from a lack of education.  
	All that stuff about post-logic & post structuralism & 
	Baudrillardian ghosts & Agency is simply over my head. 
	Which is my failing, not yours.

	However, I think I do grasp one of your points - that many writers 
	have been both `artist' & `critic'.  And that the one is no higher a 
	form of life than the other.

	Futile & all as it is to say so, I simply don't agree.  Milton & 
	Heaney & even Eliot are read nowadays by most for their poetry, 
	not their critical views.  Dover Beach will be moving people when 
	Arnold's other stuff has been long forgotten.  There is something 
	glorious about a great poem - & of a different order altogether 
	from the most astute criticism.  

	Furthermore, how many of these ambidextrous people have there 
	really been ?  Don't tell me Dr Johnson.  You must surely realise 
	he is simply the invention of that great fellow Scot & novelist, 
	James Boswell.

	Scottie B.

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