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Author Topic: WAR And PEACE  (Read 16793 times)

Beren

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Re: WAR And PEACE
« Reply #50 on: 06 Apr 2009, 19:35 »

You guys suck at reading.

What I was saying was that that's an equally invalid reason to not read something as the translation argument.

But really you should not read because you're bad at it.

 :-P

Good writing is good writing because it's transtemporal as well as translingual

as well as transexual.
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Re: WAR And PEACE
« Reply #51 on: 06 Apr 2009, 19:37 »

basically the text transcends the author and therefore the context and stands on its own as a work which can be read and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. The fact that we may never be able to fully understand what the author intended is irrelevant. this is called post-modernism, i dunno if you have heard of it it's a pretty radical idea*


*it is not radical at all
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Re: WAR And PEACE
« Reply #52 on: 08 Apr 2009, 10:24 »

Alex, I'm really sorry if you thought I was calling you obnoxious!  It's not what I meant at all.  In fact, I agree with your post completely.


I'm afraid the time for that has past.

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