"The utopian world implied by this Edenic view of human communication is precisely the world of unchanging and non-negotiable secular truths that Thomas More enshrined in his 'Utopia' and that the liberal arts have used as a lodestone ever since.   In it, the basic rhetorical impulses of competition and play are outlawed in favor of plain Edenic purpose.  Style gives way to an insubstantial something we call "substance." . . .  Lanham at 113.

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