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Originally Posted by TGS
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  |
Yeah, I've read some of that stuff and there is some truth in it, I think. But where it goes off track is that it doesn't recognize the author as the conductor as well as the composer. Still, we all bring our unique selves to any book, and as a consequence, no one actually reads exactly the same book.
Therefore, we owe ourselves royalties...