Author, Reader, or Text? (aka Canonicity Slapdown 2005) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lyta_Underhill · 07-14-2005, 09:07 AM

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Oh, but it doesn't offer 'precisely' anything. It also says that we don't have the faintest idea - & I think we have more than that.

Look how the most interesting concepts defy attempts to pin them down! It is this very literary squidginess that keeps some running after it, while others grab onto one aspect and decide they've figured it out and sit quiet and smug on the raging battlefield...should it be any other way?

Cheers!
Lyta (still haven't decided, but I think it will end up like complete burning of molecule--a percentage of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen--tells us the absolute makeup of a molecule without giving a clue to its sublime structure...why did I say that? Because the coffee hasn't worked its magic fully yet!) And this glides smoothly to Gandalf's words about "he who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." Forgive my free association and atrocious post structure. I have still managed to stay atop the fence though!

Cheers again!

VanimaEdhel · 07-16-2005, 09:06 AM

Hey! The voting isn't anonymous. If you click on the numbers, you can see who voted for what...

Eomer of the Rohirrim · 07-16-2005, 09:20 AM

True.

VanimaEdhel · 07-16-2005, 09:40 AM

I didn't know...

Durelin · 07-16-2005, 10:16 AM

I thought I didn't know...but I think I do.

And so my name is immortalized with the reader's experience crowd. So...just for the record: let he who is without opinion cast the first stone.

View Poll Results: The meaning of The Lord of the Rings is to be found in
The intention of the author	6	11.11%
The experience of the reader	29	53.70%
Analysis of the text	12	22.22%
I haven't the faintest idea, I just think the book is cool	7	12.96%
Voters: 54. You may not vote on this poll

07-16-2005, 09:06 AM	#2
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Hey! The voting isn't anonymous. If you click on the numbers, you can see who voted for what... __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

07-16-2005, 09:20 AM	#3
Eomer of the Rohirrim Auspicious Wraith Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,859	True. __________________ Los Ingobernables de Harlond

07-16-2005, 09:40 AM	#4
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	I didn't know... __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

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07-16-2005, 10:16 AM	#5
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	I thought I didn't know...but I think I do. And so my name is immortalized with the reader's experience crowd. So...just for the record: let he who is without opinion cast the first stone.