> I tell you, every time someone cites another passage it brings out for
> me just how wonderful a writer Smith was. He was one of the greatest
> non-fiction stylists the English language has ever produced. It's a
> mountain of a book on the driest of topics and yet almost every
> paragraph is a physical pleasure to read.
That must mean all his ideas are really simpleminded. If there were any complexity to his thought he would write like Judith Butler.
SA