Are his riches exhaustible?

Speech is the channel of relationships
Language is the study of speech.
Does analyzing language demythologize relationships?
Does it make them any safer? Does it unsheathe those events that we look on with wonder, and pull the meat off of them until we wonder how anyone could fall for those cheap tricks we called love and hate? Is that why I adore linguistics? From now on, any emotional or relational reductionism will come back to bite me. Rats.

Does critical study of the Bible demythologize revelation?
In both language and God's word there remains plenty of mystery for us all. But is it atomistic, emergent, or multi-faceted? If the mystery were atomistic, we'd study phrase by phrase, sniffing out every connotation, and tracing the relations between each phrase. If the mystery were emergent, we'd have to recognize it as it arises from simple parts that emit complex meaning when brought together. If the mystery were multi-faceted, it would be in every aspect, every relation, and then in the discourse styles, and the relations between different texts... in short, everywhere in abundance of complexity, visible tangles or no.

But -- treat your subject arrogantly and you'll be sent away empty, thinking there was nothing there in the first place.