Michael, may I humbly suggest you try and make your points with support from "Seymour--An Introduction." It may be a more familiar language for us to understand your points, and I do think mr. salinger deals directly with your concerns in this story...you make it sound like we all have a "peerage of tin ears"! will On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Michael Tipermas wrote: > How can you say the author is just a reader? That is saying that you are > looking for messages that aren't there. The author creates the > character and their actions and their reasons for their actions. The > author knows what the character is feeling because he is the > character(especially in jds case). I have not said you don't critizcize > him frequently. If you read my previous messages you would see that I > said that you separate the author from the works. Then you separarate > the enjoyment of the works and the disecting of the works. Then you > separate the author's message from your made up meanings. Then you > separate the author as a person from the author as a semi-god. Then you > demonize the author as a person, but worship the semi-god author. Can > anyone understand what I said? > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >