Re: Salinger and Barthes

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<<My main question here is, where does that leave Salinger's unread
manuscripts? Can a text truly be "written" if no one is around to read
it (kind of a spin on the tree-falling-in-the-woods question)? I'm not
sure where I stand on this question, but I'm leaning toward "NO." I
mean, I've written dozens of crappy stories and poems that no one has
ever read, and to me those stories are dead. They have not been given
life by the reader, so they just end up being words without meaning.>>

Well, that's just it.  Every text has at least one reader--the author. 
The author becomes the reader after the text is done.

Jim

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