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| Topic | Sesame Street's official Twitter says that Bert & Ernie are NOT gay. |
| scar the 1 09/19/18 6:37:27 AM #20: | DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted... Ray Bradbury said that Farenheit 451 was about how other forms of media were reducing society's interest in books, which of course was a concern for Bradbury, he being a writer. If you want to say that you think it's about censorship, YOU are personally free to feel that way, but you do not get to say that your interpretation is the official one, or that the author "meant" that as subtext. The author's word (pardon the pun) is the final arbiter of what the author was saying. No interpretation is "the official" one. The author has the final word on what they were saying, but they don't have any influence on what people are hearing/reading. Similarly, if I draw a tree but you think it looks like a penis, neither of us are wrong. That's a very fundamental aspect of any critical analysis. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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