Yeah, I understand how all this works to a greater extent than I can verbalize here (I'm way out of practice discussing any of this stuff); I have a pretty extensive background in literary theory and, more generally, in thinking about texts and authors and readers, etc.
Still, I was missing a basic point there, and somehow reading your comments and thinking about them finally bonked me over the head about some of the issues here. It's always a good thing when someone, like you for instance, challenges me on what I'm saying so that I'm forced to think more broadly about whatever it is I think I know what I'm talking about, which is sometimes dismayingly next to nothing.
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Yeah, I understand how all this works to a greater extent than I can verbalize here (I'm way out of practice discussing any of this stuff); I have a pretty extensive background in literary theory and, more generally, in thinking about texts and authors and readers, etc.
Still, I was missing a basic point there, and somehow reading your comments and thinking about them finally bonked me over the head about some of the issues here. It's always a good thing when someone, like you for instance, challenges me on what I'm saying so that I'm forced to think more broadly about whatever it is I think I know what I'm talking about, which is sometimes dismayingly next to nothing.