RE: Finding Meaning [was RE: Daumier-Smith and Empathy]


Subject: RE: Finding Meaning [was RE: Daumier-Smith and Empathy]
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 06:43:21 GMT


>>cecilia wrote:
>> (Perhaps our resident psychiatrist can comment upon this and tell
>>me if it's all bunk.)

Resident shrink?!?! Please identify ...

>>Those who deny it, I think, are those who would say that meaning is entirely
>>in the author's hands. But is it? Or is it, as Aquinas posits, "pulcra
>>sunt quae visa placent."

(Nice of you not to translate a 2nd time.)

>>Perhaps most of the meaning is in the hands of
>>the reader.

Now, this is such a well worded opinion, even a
staunch querulant like myself can't find a fault in this.
Anyway, I''m chickening out and will say that half of
the meaning must be with the writer at least and half must
be ... w/e. As for the from-the-back-of-the-mind-to-the-surface argument,
shame on me for not thinking of that. However, this sort of
clouds the discussion.

Zazie

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