Which isn’t to say that the vantage points and categories of old are no longer relevant, for I think they are (I can’t imagine how the novel, for instance, which has managed to sustain itself in the four centuries since Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, and which seems to me a most perfect and beautiful form, would cease to speak to some longing in the heart), but that a new vantage point is emerging that wants to be reconciled to, or synthesized with, those of old.