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Originally Posted by Catlady
By the same token, how any narrator interprets it is irrelevant. It's the same text whether the reader sees it or hears it.
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I disagree. You had seemed to suggest that the author's interpretation somehow has some validity. AFAIC, the text is neutral from any author's narration; it was the author's responsibility to express his meaning in the words alone. Narration matters. Heck, we all have narrators we like and those we loathe, which says in itself that the process of narration changes things.
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You can't really call an author narrating his or her own book an intermediary; it's not an additional person getting between the reader and the author.
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Sure I can! It's the author getting between his written words and the reader (i.e., listener).