Ernie Speaks
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@Horace said in Ernie Speaks:
Artists do not have veto power over interpretations of their work.
That's surprisingly post-modern of you.
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SparkNotes begs to differ with the author.
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SparkNotes begs to differ with the author.
@Mik said in Ernie Speaks:
SparkNotes begs to differ with the author.
I wonder about the context of the quote. More than likely he was responding to the disappearing-up-your-own-asshole approach to lit criticism and not intending to say the story has no meaning outside of its facts.
Please love yourself.
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@Mik said in Ernie Speaks:
SparkNotes begs to differ with the author.
I wonder about the context of the quote. More than likely he was responding to the disappearing-up-your-own-asshole approach to lit criticism and not intending to say the story has no meaning outside of its facts.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Ernie Speaks:
@Mik said in Ernie Speaks:
SparkNotes begs to differ with the author.
I wonder about the context of the quote. More than likely he was responding to the disappearing-up-your-own-asshole approach to lit criticism and not intending to say the story has no meaning outside of its facts.
That was how I read it. I could hear him thinking "I already wrote the goddamn story, now I have to tell you what it means? It means whatever you THINK it means, idiot!"
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Ernie Speaks:
@Mik said in Ernie Speaks:
SparkNotes begs to differ with the author.
I wonder about the context of the quote. More than likely he was responding to the disappearing-up-your-own-asshole approach to lit criticism and not intending to say the story has no meaning outside of its facts.
That was how I read it. I could hear him thinking "I already wrote the goddamn story, now I have to tell you what it means? It means whatever you THINK it means, idiot!"
@Mik said in Ernie Speaks:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Ernie Speaks:
@Mik said in Ernie Speaks:
It means whatever you THINK it means, idiot!"
Which is what we do with much of what we read and experience.
