Re: The World According to Walter

No, but neither is less. I was talking about "having something to say" :) --
not going on and on to cover up the fact that you don't. 200 words is pretty
limiting, you know -- about a page typed, right?

This reply relates to the "authorial intent" argument because I'd asserted
earlier that you might be able to get 20 people to agree with this statement:
"_The Catcher in the Rye_ is a novel about a troubled teenager," but you may
not get them to agree if you go into more detail than that. Same thing with
authorial intent. I think the most surface, banal observations about a text
can be reached between most authors and most readers (who are anything like
them -- important qualification), but that's not the same thing as going into
depth with a text.

Jim

Cecilia Baader wrote:

> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> >
> > But suppose that what you have to say about a fictional work goes beyond
> > 200 words? How much do you really think can be said in 200 words?
> > Is that all you ever have to say about a work you read?
>
> You know something, Jim? More is not necessarily better.
>
> Best,
> Cecilia.
>
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