from "The History and Power of Writing"

"When we study a publication we cannot dissociate the author's contribution and the aspect that the publisher gave the work. No one can claim to restore a famous text to its full, disembodied purity: every book is an instrument of communication that must be interpreted as a whole. But by the same token we need to ask why so many texts that we believe we appreciate were originally presented in a form that baffles us."  (319-320)