condensed metaphor for a million feelings which is 
what poetry does. And Marshall was a poet in that 
sense. He was not really a theorist, even though 
I’m sure I used the word theorist in describing him 
many times, and even though people at various 
times have said that he is a great theorist like 
Darwin or Marx. He wasn’t like that, he didn’t write 
the books, he didn’t write the equivalent of the On  
the Origin of Species by Means of Natural  
Selection . He did not write the equivalent of Das  
Kapital ; he threw out these paragraphs, probes, 
bits and pieces. His whole life was like a seminar 
with a brilliant professor who sits there 
surrounded by students throwing out this idea,