since I've been tempted to get into it three times in the past 24 hours

[pocochina]

I really dislike feeling like this is necessary because (a) it is tedious as fuck and (b) I am a strong proponent of the idea that authorial intent is of little to no value in discussing a text. (It’s kind of surreal having this conversation around a narrative which went out of its way to challenge the idea that the voice of the author should

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[pocochina]

OH MY GOD IT WAS SO GOOD. Second-best season of the show, after S4. (I'm equally fond of seasons 6&8, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth this past year has been the loudest and most delectable I have ever experienced in any fandom. I shall never know wank like this again. The internet has peaked.) Do you want the nutshell?

I've learned that those who do, tend to be educated in the arts and those who don't, aren't. *ducks*

ahahaha, I am not. Like, at all. I stopped taking English as soon as I finished my high school requirements and that was over a decade ago. I do think I had all this out in a similar way during law school, though, in the originalism vs living document argument in constitutional law.

unless you do so in order to further the argument, with this ploy, of how a piece of Art is born, a sort of genealogical map, if you will

Yeah, I think I see what you're saying. I do sometimes think it's interesting to pick out how certain aspects of the author come through in a piece of work, but those conversations tend to lead you to the opposite conclusion of whatever it is the writer in question has come out to say.