In The Language of Inquiry, we can see Lyn Hejinian writing herself into new discoveries, new disclosures. In “La Faustienne” (1994-1998), Hejinian revisits her earlier interest “in Enlightenment science and the epistemological questions it raises” that she had written about in “Strangeness” (1988). But six years later, “I found myself at an impasse, realizing those quandaries had become politicized in my mind.”[1]