Tom Walker: I study and do textual analysis. There are two things I can say
with confidence: 1. those who presume to know what a text or its author "really
means" are seriously underestimating the complexity of authorship,
intertextuality and reception; 2. those who would assign some transcendent
status to a particular text are deluded in presuming that they know what that
text really means.
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Tom, this truly wonderful. I don't know if I've ever seen anything better in
various studies of hermeneutics.
But to waste it on what's-his-name . . . As I said (quoting Pope) "Who breaks a
butterfly upon a wheel."
Carrol
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