(Yes, theory is seductive to the extent people misunderstand it. Of course, “just be more ambiguous, harder to pin down” is about as useful as “just be more attractive”. We’re not supposed to notice the fundamental doubts lingering over flights of hermeneutics; we’re supposed to notice an effect of something both instrumental and highly specific, light metaleptic flourishes and wave patterns over shallow water, everything that says “insightful and reasoned out” and enacts an axiology of disappearance…)