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                                                           October 22, 2022

                                          MOIRA_GRAPH
                                  
Some of Moira Weigel's praise for Williams'     
"Keywords" seems pretty extreme:                
                                                
    "Although it's deeply erudite,             
    the author wears his learning
    lightly; Williams's prose has a
    spring in its step."
   

I would've said Williams' prose is                     
leaden, weighted down by the furniture                 
of references to sources, and sabotaged        FORMALIST        
by the need to use words to discuss the              
changes of meanings in words-- he                   
struggles to be precise with tools that               
resist this precision, because his            
central subject is the fluidity of the       
meaning of words.                      
      







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