Now and again somebody like Christopher Norris may, in a pious moment, attempt to "recuperate" a particularly brilliant old-style reputation by claiming its owner as a New New Critic "avant la lettre" – Empson in this case, now to be thought of as having, in his "great theoretical summa," "The Structure of Complex Words", anticipated deconstruction. The grumpy old man repudiated this notion with his habitual scorn, calling the work of Derrida (or, as he preferred to call him, "Nerrida") "very disgusting" (Kermode, "Pleasure, Change, and the Canon")