In all honestly, I was a bit confused about this piece, it often felt quite woolly in its attempt toput across some of its points. For example:

'If you are pumping up your bicycle tires because you are preparing to go for a bike ride, a thick description of your pumping requires a reference to your intended ride, whether that ride occurs or not; if, on the oter hand, you are pumping up your bicycle tires because you want to strengthen the muscles of your arms so that the bullies will no longer kick sand at you at he beach, the thick description of your pumping would differ accordingly'.

This little relation to literature left we detached from the piece. Additionally though, in the later stages of the text, mentions of Homer, Dante, Joyce, Madam Bovary- all texts that I haven't read- made it very context specific, and again I was left confused.

I did, however, appreciate ideas such as anthropology and literary criticism 'drawing upon their particular strengths, strengths that depended at least as much upon the differences between their characteristic texts as upo their surprising similarities.'
The contrast and comparison- the concept of a un-straight-forward correlation- was particularly interesting.