Love’s Old Sweet Song

to the supernatural, every part of lifenmust --- and does --- seem a game, anclosed entity defined strictly by its ownnself-referentiality. Modern "philosophy"nassures us that such an entity isnsimply "reality," and contemporaryn"criticism," which is deconstruction,nseconds the conclusion.n"What we have lost," Walter Sullivannconcludes, "---let me repeat it . . .