Re: brouhaha-hahaha

Right, Daniel, anyone who disagrees with you on this point not only
misunderstands, but is a Pharisee :). I would argue that when an
airplane is deliberately crashed into a building, its meaning changes
from its intended meaning (transportation) to the terrorist meaning
(lethal weapon) -- not only for the terrorists, but for the victims.

There's nothing wrong with identifying obvious plot elements, but if
that's all our reading strategies allow us to do, then we have a pretty
impoverished view of what literature can communicate. There's nothing
wrong with reading for the immediate pleasures offered by a text, but if
that's all people ever did with the Bible, for example, you probably
wouldn't be able to quote it meaningfully here and now.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

>It wasn't a lethal weapon it was a commercial airline and it meaned exactly
>that, that is why it is terrorism. It only means lethal weapon when you
>simplify it. You take ownership and act like it is still out there on its
>own. You don't like the alleged 'obvious plot elements' because why? They
>don't have enough meaning? Or enough of your meaning or any other readers
>for your or their purpose? That's it Jim, it isn't good enough to see a
>flower, you have to dig it up. You have to plant it in your garden and
>contrive an explanation to justify it all, like; 'Hey we gave it an enclosre
>based on it's natural habitat'. Again, we all pour our meanings into a
>'text' but some of us admit it but those 'obvious plot elements' are never
>as good as the what the critic has to say. I read your post and well, all I
>am responding to are its obvious plot elements. I'll piss off Carter and
>end with a quote, " you tithe in anise and cummin but neglect the weightier
>matters of the law." I suspect that you will say I am misquoting but all it
>would prove is that you misunderstand.
>Daniel
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