A public act of creation has a claim on our attention, just as a plea
from a stranger on the street has, and even if the claim turns out to be
bogus, overstated, or irritating. Humans exist in a discursive world, a
world of language...
-- Mark Kingwell. "Language Speaks Us: Sophie's Tree and the
Paradox of Self" in The Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in
the Digital Age? (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013), edited by
Paul Socken.