Re: brouhaha-hahaha

That's the point, though: I didn't "misconstrue" you. You brought up the
hijacker analogy and saw for yourself, as you were writing it, that it led in
directions you didn't like. I didn't need to acknowledge that, once again, you
were saying authorial intent is the ground of textual meaning because I already
knew that. There was no point of substance in your post beyond that
reassertion.

Ultimately, though, I didn't "interpret" your post, I merely asked a question --
and since I was asking a question, there's no question about me "misconstruing"
your point. Let me repeat the question once again and see if you can "construe"
my post well enough to respond directly:

If a hijacker defines an airplane as lethal weapon, the crashes that plane into
a building, does the hijacker's definition win?

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

> I think you got my intent but you hijacked the words for your purpose
> missing what I was trying to communicate. My message to you died in your
> reply. See, you end up only talking to yourself again. Sure you can
> mis-construe my intent of meaning and make it yours. Who owns it? Meaning
> doesn't just happen, it took you to stretch my meaning so that it could
> exceed the self existen (?) intent. Jim, that is not meaning that is
> incoherence in comminication. It remains babel if it didn't get through.
> Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Rovira [mailto:jrovira@drew.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 3:01 PM
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: Re: brouhaha-hahaha
>
> Daniel, I didn't "hijack" your post, I repeated it. It's not my fault
> your words exceeded your intent :). They always do, you know. That's
> the point.
>
> Jim
>
> Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:
>
> >You missed the point. You hijacked my post, what can I say? I hope no one
> >died.
> >Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> >You answered your own question, Daniel, there at the end.
> >
> >To a hijacker, a plane "means" lethal weapon.
> >
> >To a traveler, a plane "means" a way to travel from one place to the next.
> >
> >If a hijacker takes over a plane and crashes it into a building, his
> >definition wins, no?
> >
> >Jim
> >
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