THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN NATION
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FOOTNOTE 6
Influences that could be powerful enough to cause educated people to choose intellectual death by becoming administrators might seem unimaginable. As a guide to this aspect of Middle Ante-Penultimate intellectual enervation, perversion, and self-destruction, however, see especially Larsen's "Fragment IV" (pp. 2717-2810), containing the ambitious and brilliant seventh chapter, "Despair Notes: How Deconstructionism Happened and What It Really Meant," of Alan R. Bloomgarden and Ira Margolies, The Decline of Literature and Reason in an Age of Theory (Yale University Press, 1992). See the Editor's Note to "Fragment IV" for a discussion of the authorship question.
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