Then there's the possibility of getting stuck, as I did on the Northwest corner of today's crossword puzzle. A mental block, something within my own head. I'm sure the answers will seem obvious in retrospect. Air force Chief of Staff in the 1960s? It calls on more dictionary knowledge than encyclopeidia knowledge, to evoke Eco's distinction.

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The degree to which Blanchot established one version of the canon of modernism, still influential in Spain. I notice that the translator of The Work of Fire (Charlotte Mandell) acknowledges her husband, "Robert Kelly." I'm wondering if this is THE Robert Kelly. I assume it is, because she also thanks Pierre Joris.