#49 · 2:38pm Aug 1st, 2019
I often get the feeling - here and elsewhere - that folks put a lot more care and attention into the reading of what I pinch out than I do into the writing of them. But that's life, I suppose. Death of the author? No, no, wrong term. Something else.
It's all just a joke, really...
And here I am, waiting for more Johns.
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It's coming! The next bit is a thick slice of navel-gazing bollocks.
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The second best kind of chapter. Just behind romantic fluff.
Necromancy of the Author?
One can only imagine how authors of the past would have reacted to just how clinically semanticists and critics analyze their works.
Have you ever had an English teacher who delves far too deeply into the curtains being blue in a scene and how that ties into the symbolism, themes, and so forth in the greater story, when the author likely only meant "the damn curtains are blue, so why is this being blown out of proportion?"