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Most critics are so domesticated as to seem institutions--as they stand there between reader and writer, so different from either, they remind one of the Wall standing between Pyramus and Thisbe.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker complains that most critics have become so tame and settled that they resemble institutions. Standing between reader and writer, unlike either, they recall the Wall between Pyramus and Thisbe: an obstacle separating two parties who might otherwise connect directly.
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