Re: a Daniel come to judgement
JDHadden@aol.com
Mon, 06 Jul 1998 00:39:26 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 98-07-05 19:26:52 EDT:
<< I liked JD's post too, and I even used to think that way myself. Then I
looked closer and had to change my mind :)
I'm afraid I don't understand. If the writer's purpose is not, as I
suggested, to simply express his ideas, then what is he trying to do?
Obviously, readers (naive or critical, I suspect that there's not that much
difference between the two) have the right to interpret whatever they read,
and may often gain more through their interpretation than the author intended;
still, it is the writer's original ideas that they are interpreting, and they
are creating no new ideas.
I hope that made sense...
next...
<< I promise you JD will too in less than three years. It's not corruption.
It's education.
Which can often mean the same thing. Education may allow one to better
understand a subject (or sometimes not), but I refuse to let a professor who
is inherently no more insightful than myself (even though he may have a Ph.D
and can quote War and Peace) create my ideas for me. An author's personal
reasons for writing is elusive, and no amount of education can completely
reveal those reasons.
Until next time,
JD