AtD 146 lines (spoiled)
pynchonoid
pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 30 13:41:50 CST 2006
Both/and, not either/or, imho. Words and sentences
carry multiple meanings, and we approach a literary
text with the expectation that the author will have
brought into play various levels of meaning, metaphor,
etc. available in the words he chooses.
> Doesn't reading it this way (and I admit I'm tempted
> to read it this
> way myself) have little if anything to do with the
> text itself, and
> everything to do with the expectations we bring to
> the text?
>
>
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