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“... great theoretical summa’, is the view also of his contributors William Righter, Alan Durant and Colin MacCabe, and Jean Lecercle, whose lively piece includes a remark to the effect that the poem ‘Camping Out’ mentions a girlfriend cleaning her teeth into the lake. Empson, so keen on biography, would have liked him to know that this was no ...”

“... comedians in Earl’s Court abuse the government and attending semiotics seminars at the ICA where Colin MacCabe discusses ‘the relation between a bag of crisps and the self-enclosed unity of the linguistic sign’. This rhapsody emerged at a time when metrocentric lifestyles were not so routinely cannibalised by Lottery-funded film-makers and ...”

“... they like to be in power and that’s where power is and they’re drawn to it,’ he said to Colin MacCabe in 2007 of New Labour, about which he wrote an acute and caustic essay, ‘The Great Moving Nowhere Show’, in 1998. ‘But in a kind of sense you can’t spend your life nay-saying, resisting. You’ve got to get in and see what you can do ...”