When he gets to his overview of habit and novelty and then moves into a discussion of time, his poetic language provides several interesting mental footholds from which we can expand on…

"History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition." "Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order." "The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman."…