Because Professor Redish's formal expectations were so entrenched, he was apparently disabled entirely from even suspecting that something was going on in a book other than the failure to do the only thing he thought could be done with the subject.

XREF: Connects to the theme of academic rigidity suppressing unconventional readings, echo of the broader argument that canonical texts were misread for generations.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 581