“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
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I know he uses the terms "misprision" and "misreading" a lot throughout all of his writings. I don't have a copy on me to locate a specific example, but I bet a quick perusal of "A Map of Misreading" or "The Anxiety of Influence" would be enough to find numerous examples of this idea elaborated.
Not sure if this is exactly what you're referring to, but, along those same lines, ses the terms "misprision" and "misreading" a lot (and emphasizes that by "misreading" he does not mean some high-functioning form of dyslexia). I don't have copies on me at the moment to cite for you, but I'm thinking a quick perusal of either "A Map of Misreading" or "The Anxiety of Influence" would be enough to come up with numerous examples of this idea elaborated.
I'm going to guess you'd find that idea in his book "Agon."
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