Hi Marsha, Thanks for the Atwood quote. I said the same thing about Pirsig's book a year or so ago. That is, that he had no control over the protagonist once the book was released. In fact, he was no longer an expert on the subject, we all were. As you can imagine, there were some in the forum that thought I should do penance...
Cheers, Mark On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:53 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Andre Broersen wrote: > >> What's your beef Ham? Why do you hang around here? As far as I am concerned >> you can hang around on your own site. Get discussions going about your >> essentially proprioceptive agents but, for goodness sake (!) go away...you >> remind me of Marsha...only your objections are patterned and Marsha's are >> un-patterned. Yours are irrelevant and Marsha's are bull. > > > Andre, > > I've been reading some non-fiction by Margaret Atwood, and found this: > > "A book may outlive its author, and it moves too, and can be said to change > -- but not in the manner of the telling. It changes in the manner of the > reading. As many commentators have remarked, works of literature are > recreated by each generation of readers, who make them new by finding fresh > meaning in them. The printed text of a book is thus like a musical score, > which is not itself music, but becomes music when played by musicians, or > "interpreted" by them, as we say. The act of reading a text is like playing > music and listening to it at the same time, and the reader becomes his own > interpreter." > > > Marsha > > > > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
