The epigraph from a book on Shakespeare by Clinton Heylin:

• The greatest advantage of Shakespearean studies seems to be that questions may be asked over and over again, and that almost nobody pays attention to the answers — unless he borrows them for his own use in an article or a book. — Hyder E. Rollins, 1944

My general interest here on the blog is in the ways that people's voices come to matter in their society, their democracy, and a quotation like this makes me think that I need to add a category to my inquiry: speech and writing that is hardly meant to matter at all. Or meant to matter so narrowly that hardly anyone should take notice. Speech and writing deeply alienated from almost all of the society's needs or ways.