MDDM Ch. 12 Summary & Notes

[jbor]

davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> Again, no apparent source for your complaint that ...
> 
> "It's far more interesting and worthwhile to interpret
> and evaluate what's in the books, rather than forever
> trawling elsewhere and trying to force things into
> them which aren't there at all. This is particularly
> so when the trawling is done in the interests of
> producing a biased reading, or rewriting, of the text.
> Of course, any reading is intrinsically biased, or
> subjectivised, but there's a difference between using
> the texts to champion some doctrinaire political or
> religious viewpoint, meanwhile turning the texts into
> little more than polemics, and acknowledging and
> valuing them for the complex and multifarious works of
> art which they are."

It's quite clearly not a complaint, merely a comment and a couple of
observations following on from Paul's and Terrance's responses to your post.
I agreed with them. I disagreed with you. That's it.

best

> And there are very few who are NOT complaining about
> something or another here these days ...
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> 
>> And as I said, no-one was complaining. Other than
>> you, that is.
>