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Originally Posted by Harmon
But you raise an interesting analogy, "book" as "performance." It shifts the attention from the object to the author. If you consider the author as a performer rather than a creator, the "book" becomes a "ticket."
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I'm not saying this just to wind up kennyc with my hifalutin literary theory nonsense, I'm really not...
but there is a school of literary theory that holds
that it is the reader who "performs" the literary work, the writer merely provides guidelines for that performance. On an analogy with music, the book is analogous to the score, but the reader is analogous to both the orchestra and the audience.
Maybe the buggers ought to start paying us for performing their works and giving them life
