"There are more books about books then about any other subject; we do nothing but write glosses on one another" is a quote used in the essay about essays, and I find this funny as hell. Overall I thought the work was taking things too seriously. I don't like the attempt to define the essay, I feel like they're trying to box me in.
Yes, he does in fact cover the formlessness of the essay, and how the essay has remained independent from other forms of literature by rejecting their rules, but he's still trying to define it and put the essay in a box. At least that's how I feel.
I did, however, like how he talked about how the knowledge and truth in the essay were very personal things. How the thruth arrived at by the essayist is His/Her truth and no one elses. to me the essay is a very personal thing and shouldn't try to pander to what people like (though I have a problem doing that, i like to make people laugh.)
Really I just didn't get how an Essay about the formlessness and chaos that is the essay could be so stuffy and dry and boring.
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