Subjectivity?
Cyrus
cyrusgeo at netscape.net
Tue Nov 2 18:38:23 CST 2004
It's always interesting to see how different readers respond differently
to TRP's novels. Everybody brings in their own "truth", interprets
subjectively, recollects selectively and arrives (if so) to quite
distinct conclusions. Sure, "everything connects", but the connections
made vary considerably. Sometimes they're not even in the text! The
reader often projects his own preconceptions and acquired notions of
"truth" into the text, not to mention his own paranoia. Now, is that
wrong? I don't think so, but when one is searching for absolute "truths"
-- and, even more, when he is pretty convinced he has found them -- he
seems like he's engaging in a defloration of logical discourse.
Cyrus
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