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Old 11-04-2017, 10:03 PM   #179
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
OK, so if the sticking point is the intermediary, do you make an exception for books ready by their author? With such books, there's no additional interpreter; surely the author isn't going to read the book with an interpretation contrary to what he or she intended.
The text is the text; how the author interprets it is irrelevant.

And, in spades:

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Most authors, though, were very poor narrators.
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