Reflecting on Moses: The Redaction of Numbers 11‪.‬

The reception of literary works is usually accompanied by an uneasiness about their reduction to meaning ... Reading itself becomes the project: we read to understand what is involved in reading as a form of life, rather than to resolve what is read into glossy ideas. As in collage or conceptual art, meanings (Rilke's "gedeutete Welt") are part of the medium of art, part of its materiel. --Geoffrey Hartman (1)