Re: PC or Mac?

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

left_the_scene wrote:

> Exegete wrote:
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> > I'm not so sure that I'd agree with "seldom", and I certainly couldn't 
> > agree with that the author isn't the best judge of "wonderful hidden 
> > meanings" that he had not deliberated created.
> >
> > J.R.R. Tolkien, in his introduction (or was it the preface?) to Lord 
> > of the Rings attacked exactly the same point - he hated allegory as a 
> > genre, and LOTR was consciously not an allegory, nor was it a 
> > fictionalization of the Second World War, though he did acknowledge 
> > that  his expericences in the war could have colored his writing.
> >
> > Keep in mind that Tolkien was an Oxford professor in philology.
> >
> > Roy
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> LOL....
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> and I always thought finding hidden meanings that ain't there was a sign 
> of psychosis.

Exactly the point.

And not at all what Tolkien had in mind. No "easter eggs" in his literature.

Now, the author, of course, has no control at all over what the reader 
thinks he or she "sees" in the work....

Roy