Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

António Pedro Marques · 16 Nov 2011, 19:24 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:24:53 +0000
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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James Wynn wrote (16-11-2011 18:21):
> On 11/16/2011 9:51 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
>> ('Objective' doesn't mean uber-cool. It means anyone can apply the same
>> method and get the same result.)
>> ('Textual' doesn't mean superior. It means we'll be taken wherever
>> applying the method to the text takes us, not the other way round.)
>
> "Objectively" apply your ideas of "textual" criticism to Wolfe's story
> "Seven American Nights". Use it to show how you can start without a "theory"
> to fill in the blanks left by the text and to reject false cues in the text.
>
> The problem with "objectivity" is that everyone with an opinion thinks they
> have it. But In order to be truly objective, you have to have no opinion
> yourself.

I find this all works better when a comment on what someone wrote indicates 
that the commenter actually read what he's commenting on.

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