Cesc is in a gilded cage of his own making. Pep signed him as part of a contingency plan for more direct play, however the chance for that never seems to come about. Yaya Toure was brave enough to leave Barca to properly express himself (alongside astronomical wages), but I don't see it happening with Fabregas: The nostalgia factor of having returned home will keep him there.
Literature! Tolkien's prose was described as second-rate by the Nobel committee, and while he is often patronised by the literary establishment as the creator of an impressive fictional Anglo-Saxon folklore, his work is still very much part of the genre ghetto. Not to say I agree with their assessment of him, or the devaluation of genre more generally, but the condescension does appear to mirror yours of Martin, no?
