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scripts around him immediately sets him apart; other critics in his field begin to appear in increasingly dim lights, their insights flawed or incomplete, their attentions randomly directed, their best judgments at best only stray hits, confirming what they would never have guessed. Like the man whose only tool is a hammer, a man to whom all problems begin to look like nails, such a scholar is ready to wield in a flash these materials, unpublished or private, that get at what he knows is the heart of his subject. When he does, the results are inspiring. New unities emerge, flourish. Cruxes are explained, for the time being. Cross references multiply and divide. What once was open and apparent takes on the cast of several secrets. These, then, are the dangers for this scholar as he becomes both archivist and editor. The implications of the editorial metaphor for him are monstrous

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• Imaginary Jews and True Confessions

  Open Access•Andrew S Gross•Journal of Transnational American…•2009

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