hope happily ever after

[Dave Monroe]

I thought that essay might resonate here, although
perhaps not for the immediately obvious reasons.  But
that conclusion sure is a leap there.  The particular
foregrounding of a particular element in a particular
text indeed need not constitute (particularly) a
particular endorsement of said element by said text. 
But was interested in that notion of reading a
character's reading of a text (e.e., the Bible) within
an enframing text (e.g., Borges' story) as germane to
the reading of the enframing text as well.  And so
forth ...

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> 
> Oh no!
> Who has said that an atheist cannot enjoy the
> literary qualities of
> religious texts? 
> 
> Therefore Harris' final conclusion doesn't work.
> Just by bringing the Bible
> to attention and expressing that it's worth reading
> doesn't make a Christian
> writer of Borges - again, I'm not saying he is not -
> but Harris doesn't
> deliver the proof.

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