2. Wyndham Lewis was "wrong" about Joyce, but his mistakes were productive & suggestive (JJ responded to Lewis in Finnigans Wake).
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4. Pauline Kael's mistakes (on De Palma, etc) were productive in a different way: she wouldn't have been who she was without those quirks.
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5. Kael's authority wasn't the authority of expertise but the authority of personal honesty; so it was good she had untenable enthusiasms.
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