There is no lexicon!

0. Introduction Within generative linguistics, underlying representations have been a sine qua non. Such representations have been thought to encode what is unpredictable or not governed by rules. Within Optimality Theory (henceforth OT), even though the rules are virtually gone, this view continues. The function GEN and EVAL pair an underlying representation with an optimal output. I argue against this entrenched view here. Specifically, I show that within the general paradigm of OT, exceptional and morphological stress in Spanish can be treated in terms of Generalized Alignment. There is no need to alter underlying representations to account for the exceptionality of a particular word or morphological category. This raises the question of whether underlying representations are necessary for anything. This paper is organized as follows. First, I sketch out the problem of exceptional stress in Spanish nouns and verbs. Exceptions of both sorts fall into a narrow range of possibilities. I then show how normal stress and exceptional stress can be treated in terms of OT. Next, I show how a treatment in terms of parochial constraints is superior to a treatment in terms of enriched lexical representations. This raises the possibility that there are, in fact, no lexical representations to enrich.