(That’s what I kept thinking Nicholson Baker’s new novel was called. The Institutionist. Did you mean: The Institutionalist?!?!??!)
(Still braindead.) Anyway:
Geoff Dyer on Nicholson Baker‘s The Anthologist (in the Abu Dhabi National):
It’s a bonkers idea, but as we all know, any given sentence can be galvanised by a single surprising word (which is also, as Yeats reminds us, exactly the right word).
In this case, my friends, that word is BONKERS!!
“…(which is, as Yeats reminds us, exactly the right word.)”
Because there’s been some confusion about this in the past, I’ll add that, if Yeats said that (and no doubt the guy said much), he also said the opposite.