In
Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe, Donald R. Burleson says, "The surname
Warren suggests, directly, the noun
warren, an overcrowded dwelling place, from the Indo-European root
wer-, "to cover," whence also comes
warrant. Harley Warren is a semantically crowded repository of
textuality, dwelling as he does in absence, and warranting, thereby, the existence of the text — not to mention accounting for the fact that a warrant seems to have gone out at some point to have Carter brought in for questioning. Warren's name also suggests
warring, and one thinks of critic
Barbara Johnson's celebrated and felicitous definition of
deconstruction (in
The Critical Difference) as "the careful teasing out of warring forces of signification within the text itself." Harley Warren, then, comes to represent — rather, he stays away to represent — the text's own self-differing inclination, the unstoppable "warring" of its significations, the competing of its various possible configurations of privilege. Warren, the deposition tells us, has learned to read a wide variety of languages, and thus he is a fitting figure to represent linguistic and textual complexities." ==In other media==