Friday Ephemera (742)
Because you chose the Hades Funeral Service. || All-terrain bed. || Hey, it’s a job. || Somewhat bigger than expected. || Slimline solution. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Down on the farm. (h/t, Mark) || Minimal effort detected. || Close enough. || Ladies, look away now. || Ladies, look away now 2. || Answers on a postcard, please. || The unspanked pass the time. || The progressive retail experience, parts 589 and 590. (h/t, Julia) || The progressive dining experience, part 38. || But his “intention has always been to promote understanding,” obviously. || The path to manhood. || Scrambled maps. || Gameplay. || “What’s wrong with it?” || The thrill of women’s basketball. || Rufus and Harriet. || An excess of flexibility. || She found where he was storing his trauma. || And finally, first-timers find out.
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The problem started with the Death of the Author, which is essentially the idea that what you’re analysing isn’t a communication filled with intended meaning by the author
“Death of the Author” originally meant that what the author said a text was about was not necessarily what the text was about, because the author may have unconsciously included other themes (or just been lying). It didn’t mean random psychological spelunking. As an obvious and recent example, the fact that Wesley Crusher is Gene Wesley Roddenberry’s author self-insert and Marty Stu is Death of the Author. Roddenberry never acknowledged this, but even the 14-year old Wil Wheaton figured it out.
Taking something that has a nugget of truth and corrupting it is what the Progressive Left do with everything.
Also, I suspect that 90% of the deep meaning that authors later confirm is intentional, was accidental. Hell, I’ve had people ask me if something or other I wrote was intentional and it’s so tempting to say yes and take the ego boost.
Progressive retail experience 589? I prefer this version of the story.
https://x.com/stevenvoiceover/status/1709982029322797564
The great R. A. Lafferty once wrote: “The true artist intends every level of meaning”.
In context: this line is spoken by the world’s greatest forger, who has just come across the world’s greatest detective, who has been trussed up and chained to a wall with a smoking bomb in his mouth; and his initial response is to assess and praise the aesthetics of his presentation. So you might want to be careful how much weight you put on it. But still.