...writer's alienated identity. As Swift's "modern" author complains, "Books, like Men their Authors, have no more than one Way of coming into the World, but there are ten Thousand to go out of it, and return no more."4 Just as Swift ponders the uncertainty of a -work's passage from author to printer and reader,...

...things, its corruptions are likely to be the worst. * * # • > Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go oùt of it, and return no more. * # # It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut...