Re: Star Wars Racist?
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 22:02:07 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 99-08-02 20:23:56 EDT, you write:
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> > Just for the record, I did have to read quite a few posts before
> > I was able to write this one, though I would appreciate some
> > help from Jim or Anna in telling me just exactly it means.
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> To be honest, I think you're pregnant. :)
>
> Anna
HA :) This was far less far fetched than your Franny and Zooey post :)
There's two different processes we can go thru when we approach a piece of
literature. I'm going to speak of them as if they were polar opposites, when
they really exist on something of a scale. We really do both when we read,
sometimes more of one, sometimes more of the other.
On the one hand, we can read a work after having "put on" a set of glasses,
so to speak. These glasses are made up of preconceived ideas about what the
books says or should say, or philosophical premises (like Marxism or
feminism) -- they are any thought patterns or set of ideas that exist outside
the text that we superimpose over the text when we read.
On the other hand, we can read the text relatively objectively (never
completely) and try to allow the patterns of the text to come up on their
own. To try to allow it to speak for itself as much as possible, without
outside interference.
Now, which was your FandZ post doing? :)
Jim