Subject: RE: Daumier-Smith and Empathy
From: Valérie Aron (miss_vertigo18@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 03:47:41 GMT
--- ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl wrote:
>
>
> Anyway, I think Pauls take on the wall-joke is way
> too analytic, isn't this exaclty the hyper cerebral
> attitude, which Woody Allen is ridiculing so much?
> My grandfather told me that heard this joke from
> American soldiers during the war.
> Of course, one can see anything in anything. Or
> everything in everything. Or anything in every ....
> whatever. But I just hate it when people overanalyze
> literature so much, i feel that they could wring
> water from a stone! Paul is sorta on the border of
> claiming his explanations are the true motives of
> the writer, which is always dangerous.
Do you mean that Paul (or the person who tries to
explain a text) puts his own obsessions in the book
and so analyzes it across them?
Valérie
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